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  elisa.alegre@urv.cat

Bio: Elisa received her Doctorate from the Department of Anthropology and Communication at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV). She holds a Bachelors in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2012) and a Master's Degree in Medical Anthropology and International Health (2014) from URV, and received her Social Worker degree at the University of Valencia (2009). Since 2013, she has worked as a researcher in various research projects on Health, Mental Health and Youth and for different entities such as the Borja Bioethics Institute and the Official College of Social Work of Catalonia. Currently, she is developing her doctoral thesis on severe mental disorders and healing within the domestic space. In 2015 she received the Santander Ibero-America at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.

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ismaelapud@psico.edu.uy

​Bio: Ismael holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Communication from Rovira i Virgili University, a Master in Scientific Research Methodology from the National University of Lanús (Argentina) and Bachelor of Psychology and Bachelor of Anthropological Sciences, both from the University of the Republic (Uruguay). He is a researcher in the National System of Researchers of the National Agency for Research and Innovation (Uruguay). He is currently a professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of the Republic, where he performs teaching and research tasks. In teaching he teaches courses on research methodology (including ethnographic method), as well as interdisciplinary subjects in psychological anthropology, medical anthropology, among others. In research he carries out activities in two lines of research. The first as co-director of Arché, a group of interdisciplinary studies on psychedelics (https://arche.ei.udelar.edu.uy/); the second under the Mixed Ethnographies and Psychometry research project, where Buddhism is studied in Uruguay.

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dolp55@gmail.com

​Bio: Adam Aronovich is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology and Communications at the University Rovira i Virgili, where he also completed a Masters program in Medical Anthropology and Global Health. He has Bachelor degrees in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences from Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel, and a Diploma in Traditional Mexican Medicine from the University of Morelos in Mexico. He conducted extensive fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon, exploring the therapeutic effects of ayahuasca and the complexities of shamanic tourism. In addition to his interest in the therapeutic and extra-therapeutic applications of psychedelic medicines and his increasing inclusion in the globalized scenario, he is interested in the social, cultural and environmental dimensions of mental health and in the emergence of new paradigms of interdependent and reciprocal health that sees beyond the extreme individualism of modernity.

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dominique.behague@vanderbilt.edu

​Bio: Dominique P. Béhagueis is a social anthropologist and critical health scholar. She is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University and Reader at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King's College London. She holds a BA and MA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College, a PhD in Social Anthropology from McGill University, and an MSc in Epidemiology from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research in southern Brazil explores the intersection of psychiatric reform, social movements, and the emergence of "adolescence" as an object of psycho-developmental expertise and life-cycle epidemiology. She co-designed the longitudinal ethnographic sub-study the 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort run by Federal University of Pelotas, one of a handful of interdisciplinary cohort studies taking place in a country in the so-called Global South. She has also researched the politics of evidence-based efficacy models in global health decision-making. Her research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, WHO, PAHO, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust. She has published in a range of anthropology and social science journals and has edited or co-edited three special issues in Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (2008), Social Science and Medicine(2015), and Medical Anthropology Quarterly (2020).

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mariola.bernal.solano@gmail.com

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Bio: Mariola holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, and a Postgraudate Degree in Sociology and Psychology, from the Universitat de Barcelona, a Masters in Transcultural Spirituality (Universitat Ramon Llull), and Diploma of Chinese Language and Culture (Nanjing and Kunming University). She has developed her teaching and research career mainly in the field of mental health and migration, and in social inequalities in health. Mariola has been an associate professor in the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Barcelona, a collaborator in the Faculty of Psychology, at the same university, as well as in the Departament d'Antropologia, Filosofia y Treball Social of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She has worked in the group of social determinants of health of the CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health from the Andalusian School of Public Health. Among her interests focus on deepening the study of spiritual health as a determinant of health, and she also gives lectures and courses on the promotion of spiritual health.

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Bio: José Carlos is a Clinical Psychologist and doctor in Pharmacology. He has developed his scientific activity at the Autonomous University of Madrid, at the IIB-Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute in Barcelona and at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute of Barcelona (IMIM). During this time, he developed studies on the therapeutic effects of MDMA ("ecstasy") and psychopharmacological studies on the acute and long-term neuropsychiatric effects of many substances, both of synthetic and plant origin. Since 2012 he is the Scientific Director of the ICEERS Foundation where he directs and supervises studies on the potential benefits of psychoactive plants, mainly cannabis, ayahuasca and ibogaine, with the aim of improving public health. He is the co-author of numerous scientific articles and of several books and book chapters. His current lines of research include Global Mental Health and the role that psychoactive plants of traditional use play in it.

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  mireia.campanera@urv.cat

Bio: Mireia has a PhD in Social Anthropology by the University of Barcelona (2016) based on an ethnography carried out between 2008 and 2015 with the Kukama-Kukamiria indigenous population from the Marañón River, Peru. The thesis won the Extraordinary PhD Award. Her pioneering investigation investigates aquatic cosmology, fishing culture and socio-environmental conflict in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve and its zone of influence. She has collaborated with public institutions and other organizations in carrying out research in the areas of environment, international cooperation, among others topics as women in prison, and youth. She has carried out research stays at the University of Costa Rica and in Peru, financed by AECID and CNRS (France). Nowadays she is still doing research on environmental issues about Peruvian Amazon, although in 2018 started a new line of study in Anthropology of Food. From 2017, she is a member of the Research Group: Grup d'Antropologia Social from Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) (2017 SGR 00023). She has worked as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Lleida, and since 2017 as postdoctoral researcher and adjunct lecturer at the URV. She has published several books, book chapters and articles derived from her research, all of them in open access.

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  carcellermaicas@gmail.com

Bio: Natàlia holds a Doctorate in Medical, Social, and Cultural Anthropology with International Mention (2017), a Master's Medical Anthropology and International Health (2011) and a Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the URV (2009). She received her Psychology degree form the University Jaume I with a specialization in Drug Addiction and Systemic Family Therapy (2007). Natàlia is a Consultant Professor in Graduate Collective Mental Health at the UOC. Since 2010 she has worked as a researcher and technical research coordinator in numeros research projects. Her lines of work are: adolescents, youth, mental health, emotional discomforts, gender, drugs, participatory action research.

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  hcardona@udem.edu.co

Bio: Hildreman holds a Doctorate in Anthropology from the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona (Spain). He obtained his Masters in History from the National University of Colombia, Medellín. Currently he works as a full-time professor and researcher at the University of Medellín, where he is a member of the Education, Society and Peace research group and editor of the Social Sciences and Education magazine. Hildreman is the conductor of the radio program Conversions Convergentes (http://www.frecuenciau.com/conversaciones-convergentes/). He has been a professor at Eafit University, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Universidad de Antioquia and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has been a visiting professor at the Federal University of Latin American Integration (Foz do Iguacu-Brazil), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (Toluca-Mexico) and Universidat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona-Spain). Author of books Naked experiences of order. Deformed and monstrous bodies; Historian's office. Approaches and practices; On the other side of the body. Biopolitical studies in Latin America (co-authored with Dr. Zandra Pedraza); and historian's office. Approaches and practices; Body narratives of violence and aesthetics of pain and Peace and corporality. Aesthetic acvenings of the art of asking.

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  lxcela@uoc.edu

Bio: Xavi holds a Bachelor´s in Political Science from the UAB (2008) and Master's Degree in Anthropology and Ethnography from the UB (2012). He is currently doing his PhD on youth, masculinity, and mental suffering in the Anthropology and Communication program at the URV. He completed a research fellowship at the Instituto de investigaciones Gino Germani (UBA, Argentina), and is currently a professor in the Salud mental colectiva: dispositivos y herramientas para la elaboración de procesos participativos en salud mental postgraduate program. Xavi participates in different research projects in the field of mental illness and the prevention of gender-related violence with young people. He has been coordinator and member of the Cooperativa Candela Acció Comunitària i Feminista SCCL (www.candela.cat) since 2011 and participates as a coordinator and educator in several youth mental health projects with the Cooperativa Aixec SCCL (www.aixec. cat).

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  carlosalonso.chirinos@urv.cat

Bio: Chirinos is a doctor in Anthropology and Communication from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV, 2021), a master's degree in Medical Anthropology and International Health (URV, 2015), and a bachelor's in Social Anthropology (Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, 2010). He is currently doing a postdoctoral stay at Oxford Brookes University (2022) on long-term care and ageing. He is a professor at the URV and a member of the Medical Anthropology Research Centre (MARC-URV). He has participated in qualitative studies related to education, care, and health in rural areas of the Andes and the Peruvian Amazonian. His main lines of research are health and disease, gender, social care, and ageing. His ethnographic work on elderly husbands as caregivers in rural Spain environment in contexts of disability and illness stands out. He is a member of the research team of the GenderCare R&D projects (2018-2021), CUMADE Project (2020-2021), and CareModel R&D Project (2021-2024).

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  angela.cifuentes@gmail.com

Bio: Doctoral student in the Anthropology and Communication Program at the Rovira i Virgili University in -joint-supervision with the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences at the University of Chile. She has a Master Degree in Adult Clinical Psychology with a specialisation in psychoanalysis at the University of Chile. Ángela is an associate researcher at the Transdisciplinary Laboratory on Social Practices and Subjectivity (LaPSoS) at the University of Chile, member of the Research Unit on Psychoanalysis and Gender of the "Clinic and Culture" Programme and of the Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Studies in University Mental Health at the University of Chile. Her lines of research are linked to the socio-cultural and political dimensions of mental health, social malaise and contemporary subjectivities, articulating psychoanalysis, anthropology, critical theories of affects and feminist epistemologies. She is currently conducting her doctoral research on affects regimes in the neoliberal university based on the experiences of anxiety among university students in Chile.

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 ciuciuman.7@gmail.com

Bio: Adrian is an international PhD student in the Anthropology and Communication program (URV). He graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Seville, 2016) and has a Master in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (URV, 2019). Since 2014 Adrian's studies have focused on Romanian migration in Spain and its socio-cultural aspects, such as Orthodox religion and food. He carried out a research in Bucharest at the Department of Biomedical Anthropology of the Fr. I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology (Romania, 2020). He is currently developing his doctoral thesis on environmental conflicts, toxic bodies, and perceptions of a communist to post-communist stage in the Transylvania region.

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 evacirera22@hotmail.com

Bio: Eva holds a PhD in Anthropology and Communication (2018), Master in Medical Anthropology and International Health (2012), and a Diploma in Physiotherapy from the University of Vic (1998-2001). She completed her postgraduate in Neurology, trained in Basale Stimulation®, Affolter, Halliwick Concept and Kinaesthetics. Co-director and physiotherapist of CRIV Therapies. Associate Professor at the University of Vic (UVic-UCC) and the Gimbernat University School (EUG St Cugat). Dr. Cirera is a member of the Aquatic Therapy Group of the College of Physiotherapists of Catalonia

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  coral.cuadrada@urv.cat

Bio: Coral is professor of Historiography, Archivism, Medieval History and History of Women at URV and the Interuniversity Masters Degree in Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies. She was co-founder, in 1989, of gender, race, ethnicity, and class (GRÊC )Multidisciplinary Research Group, and later held the role of Coordinator from 2004 to 2009, and co-authored the website. Coral is a researcher-founder of the MARC and research group, Magenta. Currently she is PI of the research group For Love in the City Feminist Studies. In the past she has worked on Research and Developing and Innovation (RD&I) projects as PI, lectured at Conferences, Seminars, and Workshops, whilst also publishing and writing several books on themes surrounding gender, feminism, and the history of medicine

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Bio: PhD. Anthropology (2016, Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Spain), Master. Medical Anthropology & International Health (2013, Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Spain), M.Sc. Public Health (2011, Vilnius University, Lithuania), Master, Anthropology (2008, Université de Yaoundé I - Cameroon), B.Sc. Sociology & Anthropology (2003, University of Buea - Cameroon). Dr. Egbe completed his postdoctoral research at the Food Action Research Centre in Mount Saint Vincent University researching on cultural food security for newcomers to Nova Scotia. Currently, he works for the Nova Scotian provincial Government, precisely with the Department of Community Services as Director of Data Analytics and Insights. He is a member of the Canadian Anthropology Society, and the Canadian Association for Food Studies. He continues to be engaged in a variety of research including research on cultural food security, food security, food sovereignty, the social determinants of health and health care systems analysis.

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  evangelidou.stella@gmail.com

Bio: PhD in cross-cultural psychiatry (UAB/Harvard University) and clinical/health psychologist (COPC 22576). She is a specialist in global mental health and an expert in community mental health for migrants and people with human rights violations. She has a long track record in international public health projects (MENA MH, AcToVax4NAM, MyHealth, WHOQOL) as a researcher, and in humanitarian mental health/psychosocial projects (MSF, ICRC) as a consultant. Her clinical work focuses on somatization, anxiety and depression through clinical applications of art therapy. She researches intervention models in community mental health, social inequalities and determinants of mental health in migrant populations, and female genital mutilation. She specialises in qualitative design methodologies and participatory processes. She teaches "global mental health" and "violence against women" in the Master in Global Health (ISGlobal/UB) where she coordinates the seminar "GMH Series - MHPSS in humanitarian settings: Case studies", and in the Master in Health and International Cooperation (UAB) she coordinates the module "Medical Anthropology". She is currently a global mental health focal point in the Migration and Health Group at ISGlobal, and a consultant in community mental health for WHO/PAHO.

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 samfergar1@gmail.com

Bio: Sam is a researcher and trainer in sexual and gender diversity and Transfeminist activist with a degree in Biology, specializing in Feminist Studies and Medical Anthropology. Currently, Sam is investigating the role of gender and emotions in clinical practice with intersex people. Sam has recently coordinated the Participatory Diagnosis of Problems Presented by LGTBQI people in Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Municipality of Madrid (Madrid City Council, 2017). Together with Elisa Alegre-Agís, Sam is co-editor of two books on Autoethnographies MARC Collection of Medical Anthropology (in press). Among Sam's articles are: "The autoethnographic mirror"; "Body records and construction of knowledge in a study on intersexual clinic (Publicacions URV, 2018), 'Trans genealogies (feminists)' along with Aitzole Araneta in Transfeminisms. Epistemes, frictions and flows; (Txaleparta, 2012) or 'Health rights from the recognition of diversity. Alternatives to the violence of the pathologization of trans identities in The disordered gender (Egales, 2010).

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  lourdesfl76@gmail.com

Bio: Lourdes received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Lleida (UdL) and her Master's degree in Health and Medical Anthropology (MIAMSg). Since 2010, she has been part of the GIPE / PTP of the Wassu-UAB Foundation, working on Female Genital Mutilation. Lourdes also is guest lecturer in the subject of Human Ecology of the Faculty of Medicine at the UdL.

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  alejandro.goldberg@gmail.com

Bio: Alejandro is a Social Anthropologist of the University of Buenos Aires. He has a Master in Medical Anthropology, and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology specializing in Medical Anthropology and International Health, from the University of Rovira and Virgili. The nature of the work he performed has been Social, Cultural and Medical Anthropology, International Migrations and Refugees, from a trasnational perspective. He conducted ethnographic researches in many countries and contexts (Cuba, Spain, Italy, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Portugal), developing an outstanding scientific production on the subject of international migrations and health. He has lectured at graduate and post-graduate levels in severaluniversities of Europe and Latin America. He has published extensively on these subjects and dissertated on papers in congresses. Currently, he is an Independent Researcher at the Anthropological Sciences Institute (CONICET-UBA).

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  ethmholmes@berkeley.edu

Bio: Seth M. Holmes is a cultural and medical anthropologist and physician whose work focuses broadly on social hierarchies, health inequalities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalised, and resisted in contexts of transnational im/migration, agro-food systems, and health care. Holmes is Chancellor's Professor at the University of California Berkeley in Society and Environment, Medical Anthropology, and Public Health. He is Co-Director (with Ian Whitmarsh) of the MD/Ph.D. Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UCSF and UC Berkeley and Co-Chair (with Charles Briggs) of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. He has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, geography, and documentary film, including the New Millennium Book Award, the Margaret Mead Award, and the Textor Prize. In addition to scholarly publications, he has written for popular media such as The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and Salon.com and has spoken on multiple NPR, PRI, Pacifica Radio, and Radio Bilingüe radio programs.

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Bio: Constanza received her doctorate in Anthropology from the Rovira i Virgili University and graduated in psychology from the Central University (Chile), master's degree in "Ethnographic Research, Anthropological Theory and Intercultural Relations" from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and master's degree in "Public Health" from the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). She is a teaching collaborator at the Open University of Catalonia, UAB and UPF. She is a member of the working group on social determinants of health of the Spanish Epidemiology Society (SEE), in the immigration initiative. Currently, she is a researcher at the University Institute for Research in Primary Care (IDIAPJGol). Her lines of work are sexual and reproductive health, migration, gender and participation. She currently leads a project on social impact in Latin America and co-leads the project on social impact in Spain.

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Bio: Maja Kohek holds a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology and Global Health from Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), and a Master's degree in Cultural Studies and Anthropology from the University of Primorska (Koper, Slovenia). She is a researcher at the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service (ICEERS) where she conducts qualitative studies involving the contemporary use of hallucinogens. Her focus is on the ritual use of psychoactive plants (such as cannabis and ayahuasca) in the context of Global Mental Health, medical pluralism, and drug policy. Currently, she is conducting studies on the impacts of long-term participation in ayahuasca ceremonies on public health in several European countries.

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  antoniullort@gmail.com

Bio: Antoni Llort Suárez is an Anthropologist and Social Worker. He recevied his Masters in Medical Anthropology and Doctorate in Anthropology from the Rovira i Virgili University (2016). He is specialized in ethnographic research, qualitative research linked to participatory processes, advocacy strategies, peer support and production of documentaries related to the use of psychoactive substances. Since 2008 he has been coordinator of collective health projects and reduction of damages and risks to the Addiction and Mental Health Service of the Hospital Sant Joan de Reus. He is also part of the research and social intervention team at Episteme and is linked to different activist movements at the local and international level.

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  david@dpmo.cat

Bio: David Pere holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Master's in Social Sciences Research, and BA in Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He also received a Postgraduate degree in qualitative research (U. Amsterdam). Davis is an expert in methodologies of investigation of complex social phenomena, a coordinator of the "Unit of Drug Policies" of the Autonomous University of Barcelona head of research in «Episteme. Research and Social intervention », and assistant lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia. He participates as an expert for different companies that provide consulting services in the European Union, and serves as a member of the Catalan Institute of Anthropology and the European Society for Social Drug Research.

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  javier.martinez@itam.mx

Bio: Javier is a tenured professor of the Academic Department of Languages ​​of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona. He is graduated both in Philosophy and History in the University of Barcelona. He did postgraduate studies at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mesoamerican Studies). Throughout his career, he has won different scholarships, which have led him to teach courses and carry out research stays in a variety of universities, such as the National School of Anthropology and History (Mexico), the University of Hong Kong (China SAR), the City University of Hong Kong, the Technologiko Ekpaideutiko Idrima (Athens, Greece; today the University of West Attica) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). He has been a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico in the area of ​​Philosophical Anthropology. His main areas of interest are imagery studies, writing and shamanism.

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  lina.masana@urv.cat

Bio: Doctorate in Medical Anthropology (URV, 2013) and Master in Medical Anthropology and International Health (URV, 2008), master and doctorate Distinction Award (with Hons). Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UB, 2002) and Diploma in Education (UB, 1999). Specialist in ethnographic methodology, qualitative applied health research and analysis of illness narratives. She has worked extensively on the issue of the experience and management of chronic illnesses (chronicity) and related areas such as disability, dependency, public policies and global health. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher within the project Anthropology and Phenomenology of the Locked-In Syndrome at the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work of the Rovira i Virgili University (DAFiTS-URV) and a member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC-URV ). She is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (UB) and at the Institute of Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal).

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  nicolasmoraless@gmail.com

Bio: Dr. Morales has a medical degree from Universidad de Santiago (Chile) and holds a Master in Social Anthropology from Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico City. Currently he is a PhD Student in Anthropology and Communcation, at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, with a research titled "Towards a political anthropology of mental health. From asylum to activism in Sourthen Area of Santiago, Chile (1968-2018)". Has developed qualitative research projects focused on indigenous mental health (Tarapacá, Chile), everyday violences against children in urban spaces (Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México) and effects on the subjectivity of Relatives of Disappeared-Detainees confronted to forensic evidences (Paine, Chile).

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  maria.offenhenden@urv.cat

Bio: She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and BA in Sociology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in Geography and History from the Universitat de Barcelona. She teaches at the School of Social Work of the Universitat de Barcelona. She is a researcher at Food Observatory - ODELA and at the Food in Vulnerable Contexts research team of the School of Social Work of the Universitat de Barcelona. Her research focuses mainly on three lines: food and vulnerable contexts; health, risk and food; and health and childhood. Currently, she participates in the following research projects: "Rethinking food from a global and not a need reductionist perspective"; "Eating matters: environmental risks and food uncertainties in older people"; "Unaccompanied migrant minors in Spain. The current situation, care circuit and model of social and educational intervention for inclusion"; "Qualitative research of the 'Housing First' program"; and "Perception of risk of contamination by PTS through food in pregnant and breastfeeding women: MUMFOOD study".

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  maria.offenhenden@urv.cat

Bio: Maria has her Ph.D. from the Rovira i Virgili University; a degree in Anthropology with a socio-cultural orientation, from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007), and a Master's in Migrations and Social Mediation from the Rovira Virgili University (2012). Between 2005 and 2010, Maria worked on numerous social intervention projects aimed at the migrant population residing in Italy. Her areas of interest are the Anthropology of migrations, gender, and health.

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  genisona@iceers.org

Bio: Genís is a PhD candidate in Health, Psychology and Psychiatry (URV), he holds a Master's Degree in Pharmacology (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, 2018), another one in Central Nervous System sciences (URV, 2017) and a Degree in Psychology (URV, 2016). He has collaborated with several clinical trials conducted at the Institute of Biomedical Research and the Drug Research Center in the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona. His research focuses on the therapeutic potential of psychoactive substances, as well as the relationship between its consumption and global health. Currently, he is developing research activities at ICEERS Foundation.

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  wayuunita@gmail.com

Bio: Carmen has her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Rovira y Virgili University, a Master in Medical Anthropology and International Health (URV), a Master's in Anthropology and History of Venezuela; Bachelor of Education (LUZ). She is a Professor of Exclusive Dedication at the University of Zulia (LUZ), Coordinator of the Master's Program in Anthropology of the Division of Graduate Studies of the Experimental Faculty of Sciences of the University of Zulia, Principal Delegate to CONDES by the FEC, and Coordinator of the Research Line: Social meanings and care of diseases.

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  apieb@uoc.edu

Bio: Asun Pié Balaguer has a Ph.D. in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona and a Diploma in Social Education from the Ramon Llull University. She is a professor/researcher in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). She is a member of the CareNet Research Group. Care and Preparedness in the Network Society (IN3-UOC). Her research background focuses on Feminist Disability Studies. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Antioquia (Colombia), the Autonomous University of Mexico, the National Pedagogical University-Hidalgo (Pachuca, Mexico), Austral University of Chile, among others. She has co-directed the Collaborative Medication Management: a mental health research and participatory action project, 2017-2020) financed by the RecerCaixa program (RecerCaixa LCF/PR/RC16/10.100.012) She has been a researcher for the Serious Mental Disorder Metaphors Project. Analysis of the discourse of affected people and mental health professionals (2018-2021) (Spanish National R&D Plan: FFI2017-86969-R).

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  aura.roig@metzineres.org

Bio: Aura Roig Forteza is a social and cultural anthropologist and has a Master's Degree in Criminology and Sociology of the Penal System. Currently, she is working on her Ph.D. in Medical anthropology. She is the Founding Director of Metzineres, the first non-governmental cooperative dedicated to developing Sheltered Environments for women and diverse gender people who use drugs, survive violence, and multiple situations of vulnerability. She is also an international advisor on drug policy, harm reduction, human rights, and gender mainstream, combining research with the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of drug policies, programs, and services. She has been working in Spain, the USA, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, and around Europe.

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  msalasson@uoc.edu

Bio:Miguel has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Barcelona (UB), a social educator from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the University of Vigo (UVIGO). He is currently a collaborating professor in the Studies of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). His research career focuses on educational action linked to the social management of suffering. His teaching task is carried out in the Social Education degree (UOC).

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  anna.sendratoset@tuni.fi

Bio: Doctorate in Anthropology and Communication from Rovira i Virgili University (URV). She holds a master's degree in Strategic Communication in the Risk Society (URV), and a bachelor's degree in Journalism (URV) from the same institution. She's also a member of the research groups ASTERISC (URV) and Entrepreneurship, innovation and design in media (OsloMet). Her research focuses on studying healthcare digitalization and the patient-provider relationship from the perspective of media and communication studies, especially in the context of social media. In 2021 she co-edited a special issue for Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies entitled "The breakthrough of digital health: Communication as the catalyst of the transformation of care". After working for 1 year at the University of Ottawa (Canada) as a postdoctoral fellow, she is currently working as a project manager at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences of Tampere University (Finland).

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  mercedes.serrano@ub.edu

Bio: Mercedes Serrano Miguel (Zaragoza 1976) holds a doctorate in Anthropology from Rovira i Virgili University. She has a degree in Social Work from the University of Zaragoza and a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Barcelona. She has a master's degree in Psychiatric Social Assistants from the University of Zaragoza and a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology from the Rovira i Virgili University. She has worked as a social worker in different care and rehabilitation services of the Xarxa Publica de Salut Mental de Catalunya. She is currently a lecturer in the Degree in Social Work at the University of Barcelona. As a researcher, she has made different stays in Brazil, receiving a scholarship from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She has also collaborated with the "Mental health, alcohol and other drugs" team of the State Secretariat for RS Health, working on the project "Guia de Gestão Autônoma da Medicação" (GAM Guide).

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