Affiliate Faculty, Lecturer, University of California San Francisco
Social Medicine Consulting Clinician, San Francisco General Hospital
Contributing Editor, Platypus: The CASTAC Blog
Research Interests
- Biotech
- cancer
- critical public health
- Cuba
- Medical anthropology
- pharmaceuticals
- Postsocialism
- vaccines
About Naomi
Medical anthropologist and public health nurse practitioner in San Francisco. Her areas of expertise include medical anthropology, STS, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, postsocialism, social medicine, and critical public health. She has conducted ethnographic research examining (post)socialist technoscientific formations through Cuban cancer vaccines. Her new research examines a novel program providing thousands of rooms in tourist hotels to persons experiencing homelessness during the COVID19 pandemic.