Social anthropologist from the University of Chile. Master's degree in Public Health (university of Chile), Master's degree in Bioethics (Univeridad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina), PhD in Anthropology and Communication, specializing in medical anthropology and international health, (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, España).
Professor of Health Policies, Systems, and Management Program, Dr. Salvador Allende Population Health Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile.
Professor of the Institute of Research in Dental Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Chile.
As an anthropologist, public health specialist, and bioethicist, I have conducted research for over 25 years on health issues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
My areas of work relate to indigenous medical systems, public health policies, intercultural health, medicalization, colonialism, and health hegemony. I have also conducted research on intangible heritage on Rapa Nui. Much of the research developed has been conducted for international or national public organizations, or for universities. Most of it is applied research.
My output includes articles, books, compilations, and documentaries.

I am beginning a line of comparative research on health coloniality and medicalization in the Pacific.

(Politics Of) Knowledge, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology Of Care, Anthropology Of Sciences, Applied Anthropology, Anti-colonial, Anthropology Of Knowledge, Anthropology Of Policy, Autoethnography, Biomedicine, Body, Care, Chronic Illness, Colonial Politic, Colonial Policing, Colonial Process, Colonialism, Comparative Studies, Contemporary Pacific, Cultural Anthropology, Decolonization, Disaster Studies, Epistemology, Ethics, Film, Food and Nutrition, Gastrocolonialism, Gender And Sexuality, Global Health, Health, Health Workers, Ilness Experience, Indigeneity, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Indigenous Epistemology, Indigenous Political Movements, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Inequality, Intercultural Relationships, Medical Anthropology, Medicine, Medical Research, Pre-European Settlement, Public Policies, Rapanui, Medicalization

Health and nutrition studies

European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)

Polynesia

First and Early contacts
The Colonial time
20th century
21st century
Anticipatory

Rapa Nui