Monica SAAVEDRA

Monica SAAVEDRA is an anthropologist working in the fields of medical anthropology and history of health and medicine. She has done research on peoples’ adherence to and acceptance of vaccines and vaccination and has worked as research assistant in several research projects in the fields of colonial medicine and the history of medicine in Portuguese India. In 2010 Monica completed her PhD at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal with a thesis on malaria in Portugal in the first half of the twentieth century. Her book titled A Malária em Portugal: Histórias e Memórias (Malaria in Portugal: Histories and Memories) was published in 2014. She has worked as a research fellow in the project ‘The Local Bases of Global Health: Primary Health Care in South Asia, 1945-2010’, coordinated by Sanjoy Bhattacharya at the Centre for Global Health Histories, University of York, United Kingdom, from 2012 to 2017. Presently Monica is professora auxiliar convidada at the Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, and a researcher at CRIA (Center for Research in Anthropology).