Andrea Núñez Casal was a Visiting Fellow at the CSSM in spring 2024.
Andrea is an inter/transdisciplinary researcher of the entanglements between microbes, embodiment, and inequalities. To date, her research has focused on (1) socio-cultural aspects of the human microbiome and immunology; and (2) feminist embodied approaches and methods to address and remedy health inequalities associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and chronic/recurrent infections. This includes an examination of how inequalities are being reproduced within science as it moves from and between the laboratory, the governmental, the popular, and the embodied. She uses a wide variety of theoretical perspectives including STS, gender and body studies, and critical global and public health and qualitative research methods including multi-sited and digital ethnographies, historical and policy analysis.