Membres del MARC

   elisa.alegre(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD in Medical Anthropology, Bachelor's Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and Social Worker from the University of Valencia (2009). She has been a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow in the Lis Research Group - Estudis socials i de gènere sobre la corporalitat, la subjectivitat i el patiment evitable of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and at the Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Estudios de las Mujeres y del Género of Granada University. She has participated and continues to participate in various national and international projects, such as Gestión Colaborativa de la Medicación, or CUSAM: Mujeres cuidadoras de personas con trastorno mental grave: retos para un cuidado democrático y colectivo. Since 2018 she has been a teacher at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is a member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center, the URV Chair of Social Inclusion, the editorial board of the Medical Anthropology Collection (Publicacions URV), the board of the Institut Català d'Antropologia, and is co-coordinator of the Red de Antropología Médica y de la Salud of the Asociación de Antropología del Estado Español.

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Research areas: Mental health, madness, history of psychiatry, family, care, and mental health from a feminist and gender point of view.

   claudiamaria.anleu(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD in Migration and Social Mediation from Rovira i Virgili University (2015). Master's degree in Social Psychology and Political Violence from San Carlos University of Guatemala (2004) and Master's degree in Migration and Social Mediation (URV, 2010). Bachelor's degree in Social Work from Rafael Landívar University (Guatemala, 2000). Her teaching experience began in Guatemala in the 1990s. She is a member of L'ITA, the Chair of Social Inclusion, the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC, URV), and the board of the Faculty of Law at URV.

Specialization: Qualitative research, migration, social work.

Research areas: Resiliencia; migraciones; juventud; trabajo social; intervención social.

   nuria.arauna(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Núria Araüna holds a PhD in Communication from Rovira i Virgili University, a Master's degree in Creative Documentary, and is a member of the Asteric research group. She has participated in research projects dedicated to the study of cultural identities in audiovisual representations, particularly gender and sexual and affective relationships. She also specializes in adolescent audiences regarding the use of digital media. She is currently involved in an R&D project (Second-Degree Memories: Postmemory of the Civil War, Francoism, and the Democratic Transition in Contemporary Spanish Society) and directs a LINE project on Games. She is the representative of Young European Researchers (YECREA) in the Gender and Communication section of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association).

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   josep.barcelo(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: With a PhD in Anthropology, he is a university professor at the Faculty of Nursing of the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona. His main line of research focuses on the history of healthcare institutions in Spain. In this field, he was awarded the 45th Uriach Foundation Prize for the History of Medicine in 2014 and the 23rd Oleguer Miró i Borràs Prize for the History of Catalan Medicine in 2019. In recent years, his research has expanded to include work related to the history of healthcare professions and the healthcare reform process during the Franco regime.

Specialty: Anthropology; nursing; history.

Research areas: History of medicine; history of nursing; history of science; history of hospitals; public health policies.

   deborah.bekele(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Deborah is an Anthropologist (Diploma) and Epidemiologist (Master's) with 10 years of experience in transnational and international research projects involving qualitative and quantitative approaches and analyses. Her professional work and experience have allowed her to apply different approaches, critiques, and interpretations that help improve the value and applicability of research results to the relevant sample population, as well as to the larger global population. She has worked as a senior project analyst in Africa focused on the financial inclusion of marginalized populations. Deborah finds great pleasure in interacting with professionals from diverse backgrounds and academic and philosophical approaches, always seeking to incorporate different perspectives into the research dialogue. Her PhD focuses on masculinity and prostate and testicular cancer.

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  angel.belzunegui(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1991). Master's degree in Demography from the Center for Demographic Studies (1993). Tenured University Professor with accreditation as a full professor. He directed the Chair of Social Inclusion at the URV from 2011 to 2021. Academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet module " The challenges of the European Union in the social agenda: poverty, inequality and social inclusion ," funded by the European Union (2018-2021). He was Director of Research at the Center for Sociological Research from 2021 to 2023. He has over 200 publications, including academic journals and book chapters. He is the author or co-author of 35 monographs. He holds accreditation as a full professor from ANECA (May 2023). He has presented more than 200 papers at national and international conferences and has directed 13 doctoral theses, all of them with the highest possible grade.PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1991). Master's degree in Demography from the Center for Demographic Studies (1993). Tenured University Professor with accreditation as a full professor. He directed the Chair of Social Inclusion at the URV from 2011 to 2021. Academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet module " The challenges of the European Union in the social agenda: poverty, inequality and social inclusion ," funded by the European Union (2018-2021). He was Director of Research at the Center for Sociological Research from 2021 to 2023. He has over 200 publications, including academic journals and book chapters. He is the author or co-author of 35 monographs. He holds accreditation as a full professor from ANECA (May 2023). He has presented more than 200 papers at national and international conferences and has directed 13 doctoral theses, all of them with the highest possible grade.

Specialization: Quantitative social research, sociology, social capital, social exclusion, and public health.

Research areas: Social exclusion and poverty and their impact on health.

   serena.brigidi(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Serena Brigidi holds a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology. Her dissertation focused on Migration and Mental Health (2009, URV); she received an honorable mention in the Marqués de Lozoya Prize (2010). Since 2010, she has worked at various health sciences universities in Catalonia (UAB, URV, UVIC, URL) and on training projects for healthcare professionals on gender and health issues. She is a co-founder of MATER, the Observatory of Contemporary Motherhood and Fatherhood. Since 2010, she has coordinated the Film, Health, and Culture Seminar . She is also a co- ­founder of OVO, the Observatory of Obstetric Violence in Spain. She is a board member of Dona Llum, the Catalan Association for Respectful Childbirth, and a member of CAPS - Center for Health Analysis and Programs. An expert in the field of gender and health, her lines of research focus on gender violence, obstetric violence, medicalization of childbirth/pregnancy/childrearing, breastfeeding, migration and health/mental health.

Specialization: Medical Anthropology, Clinical Pedagogy (clinical simulations with non-technical skills)

Research areas: Gynecological-obstetric violence; Gender-based violence; Sexual and reproductive health; Intersectionality; Gender and Health.

   sandracaponi(ELIMINAR)@gmail.com

Bio: PhD in Philosophy (Unicamp, 1992) and Full Professor in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She has conducted research and teaching stays at the Universities of Paris 7 and Paris 8; at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, at the Collège de France ; at the University of Buenos Aires, the National University of Rosario, and the National University of Colombia. She coordinates a Capes-Cofecub project, between UFSC and Paris 8, on "The Dissemination of Expert Knowledge in the Domain of Childhood." She has published several books, including: Da compaixão à solidariedade: uma genealogía da asistencia médica (Rio de Janeiro, 2000), and Loucos e Degenerados: una genealogía de la psiquiatría ampliada (2012). Biopolitics of Indifference (2019). She is an International Institutional Ambassador for the Faculty of Psychology at the National University of Rosario.

Specialty: History of psychiatry; mental health; childhood, gender.

Research areas: Medicalization of childhood, gender and psychiatry, epistemological history of psychiatry.

   mauricioalexis.carreno(ELIMINAR)

(ELIMINAR)@estudiants.urv.cat

Bio: Mauricio is a doctoral student in Anthropology and Communication at Rovira i Virgili University and holds a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology of Adults with a specialization in psychoanalysis from the University of Chile. He is a member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) at Rovira i Virgili University and an associate researcher at the Transdisciplinary Laboratory in Social Practices and Subjectivity (LaPSoS) at the University of Chile and the Strategic Scientific Cooperation Program with the Global South (COOPBRASS), which brings together researchers from Brazil, Mexico, and Chile. His research focuses on the intersection of law transgressions, psychological discourses and practices , moral experience, and the everyday lives of young people in conflict with the law in Chile. He has been an academic and clinical supervisor at the University of Santiago, Chile, and a visiting researcher in the Postgraduate Program of the Department of Social Psychology at the Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil (PUC/SP).

Specialization: Medical Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, Clinical Psychology.

Research areas: Juvenile delinquency, Moral experience, Subjectivation processes, Psychological disciplines, Neurosciences.

   linacristina.casado(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Lina Casadó is an anthropologist and nurse, with a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology and a PhD in Anthropology from Rovira i Virgili University. Since 2003, she has participated in various projects on health, food, and the body. She has been a visiting professor in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University in the United Kingdom and a visiting researcher at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR) at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently a professor in the Department of Nursing at URV.

Specialty: Public Health. Community Health. Social Epidemiology.

Research areas: Youth. Social inequalities in health. Food insecurity.

   rosalia.cascon(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Rosalía Cascón-Pereira (PhD, 2006) is a tenured professor of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain. As a professional hybrid (economist and clinical psychologist), she has always recognized the importance of social identities for understanding human behavior and organizational dynamics. Therefore, her research has focused on social identity in its multiple manifestations: professional identity, cultural identity, identity of the chronically ill, identity of the ethical consumer, and identity of the expatriate. Other research interests include workplace meetings, emotional well-being, meaning, healthcare management research, and collaborative healthcare.

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   dolors.comasdargemir(ELIMINAR)

(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD in Migration and Social Mediation from Rovira i Virgili University (2015). Master's degree in Social Psychology and Political Violence from San Carlos University of Guatemala (2004) and Master's degree in Migration and Social Mediation (URV, 2010). Bachelor's degree in Social Work from Rafael Landívar University (Guatemala, 2000). Her teaching experience began in Guatemala in the 1990s. She is a member of L'ITA, the Chair of Social Inclusion, the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC, URV), and the board of the Faculty of Law at URV.

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   josepmaria.comelles(ELIMINAR)

(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Josep has been a professor of anthropology in Tarragona since 1977. He is one of the founders of the Tarragona School and has been professor emeritus since 2015. He holds a PhD in Anthropology (EHESS, Paris) and a PhD in Medicine (UB). He also holds a degree in Philosophy and Letters (Psychology, UB) and is a specialist in Psychiatry. He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Paris X (Nanterre), Lumière Lyon, Amsterdam, Perugia, Buenos Aires, and CIESAS (Mexico City). His areas of expertise are medical anthropology and the history of science (anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry), with a special focus on the Romería del Rocío in Andalusia. At the URV, he founded the Master's program in Medical Anthropology and International Health (2006-2014), the PhD program in Medical Anthropology (1994-2000), and the MARC program. Desde Marge del Marge is the website from which, outside of academic rigidity, he reflects on anthropology, medical anthropology, visual ethnography, history and culture, among other issues.

Specialization: Antropologia mèdica, història de la ciència, medicina i psiquiatria.

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   martin.correaurquizav(ELIMINAR)

(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD in Medical Anthropology from the URV (2010). Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences (University of Buenos Aires, 1997), Master's degree in Public Opinion (FLACSO, 1998), Master's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAB, 2005). Associate Professor at the URV, co-director and coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Collective Mental Health (FURV-FCCSM), and consultant at the UOC. He has conducted research in the fields of health, mental health, and community communication. He is the founder and general coordinator of the sociocultural association Radio Nikosia. In addition to belonging to the Social Anthropology Research Group (URV), he coordinates the Research Group in the Anthropology of Madness at the Catalan Institute of Anthropology.

Specialty: Mental health; health and adolescence; communication.

Research areas: Health, mental health and community communication.

   blanca.deusdad(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat 

Bio: She is currently the coordinator of the European H2020 project SoCaTel, a multistakeholder co-creation platform for better access to long-term care services (2017-20). She holds a PhD in Sociology (University of Barcelona, 2002) and a degree in Geography and History, specializing in cultural anthropology (University of Barcelona, 1989). She was a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow at Boston University and Harvard University (2003). She won the XII Batec Prize for Educational Research and Innovation for her work, "Immigrants in Schools" (2009). She has been a professor at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) since 2009. She edited the Special Issue of the Journal of Social Service Research (2016) on aging and the economic crisis. She has coordinated the Inter-University Master's Program in Medical Anthropology and Global Health since 2016. She participated in the COST Action IS1102 project, "Social services, welfare state and plazas" (2011-2016). Researcher in the COST Action IS1402 Ageism project, from a multinational interdisciplinary perspective. Member of the Housing Chair and the UNESCO Chair of Mediterranean Intercultural Dialogue at the URV.

Specialty: Ageing, ethics and the use of emergent technologies and AI in ageing and social services; Integrated care, community-based care and co-creation; Loneliness and ageism; Ageing-in-place and new models of housing for older adults; Intercultural education and citizenship education.

 
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marija.djurdjevic(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: She holds a PhD in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University. In addition to her research career in social sciences, she has worked as an R&I manager and is an advisor on European funds (Horizon Europe and other programs) accredited by the Government of Catalonia. She is currently researching the transformation of healthcare systems towards integrated social and healthcare models that are community-based and focused on vulnerable groups ( RETCOV project ). Her work focuses on the redesign and co-design of public services using participatory governance methodologies and new technologies, with particular attention to the involvement of communities and local stakeholders, in projects such as SoCaTel (H2020) and MyRobot. Through action research and qualitative methods, she analyzes techno-social innovation as a cultural and political process. Its interdisciplinary approach integrates medical anthropology, implementation anthropology, change management, and the Science4Policy framework, with the aim of reducing the gap between scientific evidence and decision-making to promote sustainable and humane health reforms.

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jordi.farre(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat 

Bio: He is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the URV. His research interests focus on the study of risk communication processes and practices, with particular emphasis on trust, risk governance, and risk perception as a communicative whole. He is the author of several books and articles, including 'Theory of Risk Communication' co-authored with Juan Luis Gonzalo. He has been the principal investigator of two consecutive projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (SEJ2004-00892 and SEJ2007-63095) and has participated in a project of the EU's 7th Framework Programme (KBBE-2009-3-245124: Benefit/Risk Perception and Communication in the Food Chain). He is the director of the ASTERISC Communication Research Group .

Specialization: Risk communication processes and practices, governance and risk perception.

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   enric.garcia(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Predoctoral researcher with a University Teaching Training grant from the Ministry of Universities (FPU 2019). He holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Human Evolution (URV/UOC, 2018), a Master's degree in International Trade (ISEAD, 2012), and a Master's degree in Biological Anthropology, specializing in human diversity and biomedical applications (UB/UAB, 2020). He has worked as a research assistant and external contractor at institutions such as Stanford Law School at Stanford University and the Graduate Institute Geneva , focusing on social network analysis and the impact of cognitive biases on decision-making. More recently, he conducted research on the etiology of schizophrenia at the FIDMAG Research Foundation of the Hospitaller Sisters. As a student, he has been the recipient of an international mobility grant for an internship at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona (2015), a collaboration grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (2017), and a master's scholarship from the Universia Foundation (2019). He is currently developing his thesis on collaborative medication management in severe mental disorders, alternatives to coercion, and social approaches to mental health at the Medical Anthropology Research Center.

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   juanluis.gonzalo(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: He is a lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at the URV. His doctoral thesis focuses on risk communication, and he is the author of several books and articles, including 'Theory of Risk Communication' co-authored with Jordi Farré. He is a member of the ASTERISC Communication Research Group .

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   mabel.gracia(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: She is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at the URV (Rovira i Virgili University) and a research member of the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (Health and Environment). She holds a Doctorate in Medicine (URV-2004), is a Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery (MIR-1981), and a Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health (2003). She also holds a Master's degree in Public Health (UB-1991). She has held clinical and management positions at various levels. She has held senior positions in the field of Public Health and was an Associate Professor in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at the URV until the 2015-2016 academic year. She served as Secretary of Public Health for the Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia from 2016 to 2020 and is currently a Visiting Professor in the Master's Program in Public and Social Policy at Pompeu Fabra University-Johns Hopkins University. She contributes to the newspapers El Periódico and La República.

Specialty: Anthropology of food; medical anthropology; anthropology of gender.

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   nofit.itzhak(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Nofit holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California (2016). She is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow and a Beatriz de Pinós Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy, and Social Work at the URV. Her current research project studies people's relationship with the future in times of crisis and social change, analyzing its connection to childhood, parenting, and children's use of digital technologies. The study addresses these issues through an ethnographic exploration of the broader relational contexts in which children and parents engage with digital technologies, including spaces such as Fabrication Labs and Makerspaces , and paying particular attention to the experience of play and creativity on the one hand, and aspects of addiction on the other. Nofit's previous research projects include a study of charismatic Catholic humanitarian missions in France and Rwanda, and a study of neo-shamanic practices in the United States. His previous work received support from the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and the University of California, among others.

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   natalia.lozano(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Natàlia Lozano Monterrubio holds a PhD in Communication with international distinction from Rovira i Virgili University (2015). She has a Bachelor's degree in Advertising and Public Relations (URV 2008), a Master's degree in International Public Relations (Cardiff University 2010), and a Master's degree in Secondary Teacher Training (URV 2016). Her research interests are diverse, but online communication and social media are central. During her doctoral studies, her research focused on tourism brand communication (the COMTUR project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, on the influence of social media on tourism decision-making) and food communication (the FoodRisC project, funded by the European Union, on food safety, and an EY project). After completing her Master's degree in Secondary Teacher Training, she discovered gamified methodologies and decided to focus her research on communication related to youth education. Thus, she has participated in transfer projects with the Learn to Check Association, which works to provide training in media and information literacy, giving tools to combat disinformation and fake news among young people.

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   angel.martinez(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Dr. Martínez is a Distinguished Professor and head of the Center for Research in Medical Anthropology (MARCO) at Rovira i Virgili University. He received his doctorate from the University of Barcelona with a dissertation that was later published (2000) by Routledge with a foreword by Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University). He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Perugia, and the University of California, San Diego (Fulbright), among others. Since 2017, he has been an international affiliate of the Center for Global Mental Health (UC San Diego). He is the author or co-author of more than 30 books and reports and 120 book chapters and articles in leading journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, and Medical Anthropology , among others. Dr. Martínez has served as an expert and evaluator for various institutions, including the World Health Organization and the European Commission's Framework Programmes.

Specialty: Medical anthropology; anthropological theory; "biopolitics" of afflictions; health policies in Europe and Latin America; mental health; Amazonian cultures.

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   yanelis.martinez(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD student in Anthropology and Communication, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain). Bachelor's degree in Journalism (2015), University of Holguín (Cuba) and Master's degree in Social Sciences (2017), University of Oriente (Cuba). She has experience as a Journalism professor at the University of Holguín (Cuba) and as a journalist. She has published articles in the journals Communications Papers and index.comunicación. She specializes in topics related to representation in communication and the influence of ICTs on education and communication.

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   mariaantonia.martorell(ELIMINAR)

(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Nurse and Anthropologist. PhD in Medical Anthropology from Rovira i Virgili University (2009). Full Professor in the Department of Nursing at Rovira i Virgili University (URV). Coordinator for the URV of the Ibero-American Nursing Network (RIE) . Representative to the MARC for the Department of Nursing. She has been a researcher and visiting professor at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS, Mexico City) , the Department of Anthropology at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (Cuernavaca, Mexico), and the Institute of Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil). Her main line of research focuses on the sociocultural study of dementia, with a special emphasis on Alzheimer's disease. In this regard, she has published the book: Memories of the Heart: Experiences, Practices and Social Representations of Family Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's. Editorial Grupo 5, 2015.

Specialty: Sociocultural study of dementia, Alzheimer's.

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   carlotamaria.moragas(ELIMINAR)

(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD in Anthropology and Communication and Principal Editor of the Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies. She holds degrees in Advertising and Public Relations and in Journalism from Rovira i Virgili University and a Master's degree in Strategic Communication in the Risk Society from the same institution. She has participated in the R&D project (Excellence) 'The role of metaphor in the definition and social perception of conflictive issues: Institutions, media, and citizens' and the EYTO project (European Youth Tackling Obesity) funded by the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers. She is currently involved in the project 'Monitoring the image of Catalonia transmitted by international media (2020)' funded by the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia-DIPLOCADO and in the INNOTUB project, funded by the European INTERREG POCTEFA 2014-2020 program. His research interests focus on the field of political communication and discourse analysis, as well as the impact of the Web 2.0 environment on changes in the public sphere and on the shaping of public opinion.

Specialization: Political communication, discourse analysis, the public sphere and the shaping of public opinion.

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   jordi.moreras(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: He obtained his PhD in Anthropology from the URV (2009) and his Master's degree in Euro-Arab Studies (University of Girona, 1993). Between 1995 and 2001, he coordinated the migration area at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), and between 2002 and 2003, he was head of studies at the Secretariat of Religious Affairs of the Government of Catalonia. He has published eight monographs and several articles in journals such as The Muslim World , Revista de Etnologia de Catalunya, Archivo de Etnografía de Catalunya, International Affairs, Migrations, and Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, among others.

Specialty: Anthropology of Islam; migration; religion; anthropology of death.

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   fjortega2(ELIMINAR)@gmail.com

Bio: Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). He is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London. Francisco received a Master's degree from Complutense University of Madrid (1986) and a PhD in Philosophy from Bielefeld University (1995). He was a Professor at the Institute of Social Medicine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1999-2021) and a Full Professor at the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil (1996-1999). He has been a Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Bielefeld University, the University of Oldenburg, the University of Buenos Aires, the Center for Human and Social Sciences of the CSIC in Madrid, the University of Campinas, and the Federal Fluminense University in Brazil. Francisco's research examines the interactions between global biopsychiatry and local psychiatric epistemologies. The revitalization of social medicine as a vital intersection of social sciences, medical practice, and politics; the interfaces between brain sciences and the human and social sciences; the role of neuroscientific theories in the construction of personal and social identities; the pragmatic negotiation of psychiatric diagnoses; and the emergence of new forms of solidarity and mutual aid in the context of the health and economic crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Specialty: Interactions between global biopsychiatry and local psychiatric epistemologies; revitalization of social medicine as a vital intersection of social sciences, medical practice and policy; interfaces between the brain sciences and the human and social sciences; role of neuroscientific theories in the construction of personal and social identities; pragmatic negotiation of psychiatric diagnosis; and emergence of new forms of solidarity and mutual aid in the context of the health and economic crisis of the covid-19 pandemic.

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   inma.pastor(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Professor of Sociology at Rovira i Virgili University and Director of the university's Equality Observatory since 2007. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and received the Spanish Economic and Social Council's Doctoral Thesis Award in 2006 for her dissertation, "Private Management in Public Administration." She currently directs G-NET, the Equality Training Network: EU Contributions to Gender Mainstreaming and Citizenship, part of the Erasmus+ Programme. She has participated in numerous national and international conferences, presenting over one hundred papers and communications. She is a reviewer for various academic journals. She has published more than 70 contributions, including journal articles, books, and book chapters. She is a member of the Inter-University Institute for Women's and Gender Studies (iiEDG) of Catalonia.

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   jordi.prades(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD in Communication (URV 2015), Master's in Environmental Law (URV, 2011), and Bachelor's degree in Information Sciences (UAB, 1995). He researches risk and benefit communication processes in the environmental, food, health, and biotechnology fields, with a focus on meaning-making processes and practices, public participation, risk perception, and conflict management. He has worked as a journalist for various media outlets and institutional press offices and has participated in several European and Spanish projects on communication and: climate services (INDECIS); climate change (METAFPERCOM); urban air pollution (ACEPTA); food (FoodRisC and European Youth Tackling Obesity); and chemical emergencies.

Specialization: Communication processes of risks and benefits in the environmental, food and health and biotechnological fields, processes and practices of meaning creation, public participation, risk perception and conflict management.

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   susana.ramirez(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the URV, specializing in medical anthropology (2003). Bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology (National University of Misiones, Argentina). Member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center, MARC. She works in the field of medical anthropology, and her most important research has focused on the health conditions of diverse populations: Roma (Spain and France), Quechua indigenous people (Bolivia), and currently, Shipibo communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Among her most notable books are: Intercultural Health: Critique and Problematization from the Bolivian Context (ISEAT, La Paz, 2011) and Between Narrow Streets: Roma: Medical Practices and Knowledge (Bellaterra, Barcelona, 2007), among others.

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   isabella.ricco(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (2011 - Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna) and PhD in Medical Anthropology (2017, Rovira i Virgili University) with a dissertation on therapeutic pluralism in Catalonia and Emilia-Romagna (Italy). In 2016, she completed a five-month research stay at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford. Since 2017, she has been working on several European projects (Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+) on aging, co-creation, citizen participation, digitalization, and education. She is currently working in the Department of Psychology and Education Sciences at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) as a research assistant on the Erasmus+ Digitel Pro project. She is the secretary of the Anthropology Association of the ITA in Tarragona.

Specialty: Medicina popular; pluralisme terapèutic; medicines alternatives i complementàries; New Age; envelliment; cura comunitària; gènere; salut i tecnologia; educació sanitària.

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   jaime.vallverdu(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (URV, 1997). Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy, and Social Work at the URV and collaborator in the Arts and Humanities Studies program at the UOC. Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology and Human Evolution (URV/UOC). Research areas: symbolic anthropology, anthropology of religion, religious movements, social movements, and conflict. Since 2006, member of the research group on the Anthropology of the Body at the Milán y Fontanals Institution, CSIC. He has studied the Hare Krishna movement in Spain, Pentecostal Protestantism and the indigenous movement in Mexico, and the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil. He is currently researching transhumanism and Tibetan Buddhism within the framework of the coordinated R&D project (Excellence), "The Body and Gender within the Epistemological Framework of Posthumanism" (2017-2019).

Specialty: Anthropology of religion; symbolic anthropology; religious movements; social movements; conflict; body; transhumanism; anarchism.

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   laia.ventura(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Laia Ventura Garcia holds a PhD in Anthropology and Communication, a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology and International Health from Rovira i Virgili University (URV), and a Bachelor's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Psychology from the University of Barcelona. She has participated in research and intervention projects in the field of health in Guatemala, Catalonia, and the United Kingdom. Her main lines of research focus on health processes, toxicity, risk, and reproductive justice. She has been a postdoctoral researcher in the CareNet group (IN3-UOC) and at the Center for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS) at the University of Edinburgh, with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. She has also undertaken research stays at the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University and at the CBSS, where she remains a visiting researcher. Currently, she is a member of the Center for Medical Anthropology Research (MARC-URV) and the Inter-University Institute for Women and Gender Studies (IIEDG).

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Research areas: toxicity, incorporated knowledge, environmental and reproductive justice, (acte)ethnography, participatory and arts-based methodologies.

   fernando.vidal(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: ICREA Senior Research Fellow - Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. Born in Buenos Aires. Studied psychology and the history and philosophy of science at Harvard, Geneva, and Paris Universities. PhD from the University of Geneva (1988) and Habilitation from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. He has worked on the history of the human sciences and the mind/brain sciences from the early modern period to the present. He is a Guggenheim Fellow. He has been a visiting researcher at, among others, the American Academy in Rome, Harvard University, and the Fondation Brocher (Geneva), as well as a visiting professor in Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico, Japan, and Taiwan. Before his appointment as ICREA Professor in 2012, he was a tenured senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, for over a decade. He is an associate member of the Alexandre Koyré Centre (EHESS, Paris) and a member of the Academia Europaea. Some of her research interests include: the history and anthropology of mental disorders and the mind and brain sciences; contemporary neurocultures; cultural studies of biopolitics; phenomenology and narratives of affliction and illness; person, body, and subjectivation in the Western tradition and from an intercultural perspective; and bioethics. She also teaches in the Inter-University Master's Program in Medical Anthropology and Global Health.

Specialization: History and anthropology of mental disorders, biopolitics, narratives of affliction and illness, subjectivation in the Western tradition.

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 eva.zafra(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: Eva holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Barcelona, ​​2007), a Master's degree in Medical Anthropology (Rovira i Virgili University, URV, 2002), and a Bachelor's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (URV, 2000). She received her BSc in Nursing (University of Valencia, 1998). She completed residencies at the Institute of Nursing and Healthcare (Tampere, Finland), the Autonomous Metropolitan University - Xochimilco (Mexico), the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Moulay Ismail University (Morocco). She is currently a Researcher at the Food Observatory (Science Park of the University of Barcelona), a professor at Rovira i Virgili University since 2006, and a member of the Social Anthropology Group (GAS).

Specialty: Violence and society: femicide, vicarious violence and its institutional, legal and sociocultural responses; socio-educational innovation for the promotion of social justice, gender equality and community cohesion.

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cesararmando.zuniga(ELIMINAR)

(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Bio: PhD in Ethno-anthropological Research Methodologies (University of Siena, University of Cagliari, and University of Perugia) with the dissertation " The Coexistence of Medical Systems in Honduras " (1996), supervised by Professor Tullio Seppilli. He previously earned a Bachelor's degree in Modern Literature with the dissertation " The Mexican Revolution and the Maya of Yucatán " (1991), (cum laude), supervised by Professor Tullio Seppilli. He is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Nursing program at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (University of Perugia) and a researcher in the Department of Humanity and Territory at the same university. He is currently a research professor in the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy, and Social Work at Rovira i Virgili University.

Specialty: Medical Anthropology, Ethnography.

Research areas: Medical systems, therapeutic pathways, gender and health, drugs and risk perception, immigration, alcohol and age groups, oral memory.