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Short Biography

Lucia Mair is a PhD candidate at the Social and Cultural Anthropology department of the University of Vienna. Trained as a medical doctor, she has  worked and studied in healthcare facilities in Germany, Israel, Kenya and the UK.

She holds a BA in European Ethnology (LMU Munich) and MSc in Medical Anthropology and Sociology (UvA Amsterdam), where she pursued her research interests in healthcare access for marginalized populations; migration and health; and gender medicine.

Before joining the department, she worked as a consultant in global health for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Her doctoral research focuses on emergent forms of care in neighbourhood-based, primary health centers care in urban Germany.