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HARRIS SOLOMON is the Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University. His research tracks the dynamic relations between medicine, global health, and everyday social and political life in India and the US. He is the author of books including Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma; as well as Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India. Current projects include a book with critical care physician colleagues about the impacts of Covid-19 on healthcare workers in the US; a study of medical errors, mistakes, and “glitches” such as healthcare cyberattacks; and the futures of hospital architecture in the context of ongoing mass health crises.
Harris is the inaugural Director of Vital Futures.
ELIZA WILLIAMSON is a medical anthropologist whose research focuses on questions of care and health justice across disability and policy worlds in Brazil. She has published work in venues such as Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Space and Culture. Her current book manuscript, Care After Zika: Parents and Disabled Children in the Wake of an Epidemic, traces how mothers of children diagnosed with congenital Zika syndrome in Bahia, Brazil have sought to repair their worlds in the aftermath of the 2015-16 Zika virus outbreak. Eliza is a postdoctoral associate in the Global Health Institute at Duke University.
Eliza is the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow of Vital Futures.
