I'm an Australian anthropologist, specialising in health in India. I hold a PhD in social anthropology (2019), and my research is broadly situated in the sub-fields of medical anthropology, community health, religious studies gender and the state.

I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher at Hamburg University, Germany, in the multi-disciplinary Knowing Vaccines project. My research addresses adverse events following immunisation (AEFI), such as ‘Immunization Stress Related Response’ (ISRR).

My previous research examined grassroots approaches to healthcare forged by marginalised actors in India. It considers how – within a field of competing tensions (ideologies, practices, services, individual needs and public health policies) – people develop intricate methods to strive for good care and agency. My fieldwork has spanned low-income urban areas and a faith healing temple in south India that introduced psychiatry  – research for which she received a Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award. 

See my publications on Researchgate.