About Me

Two women outdoors in a rural, mountainous area. One woman in a gray hooded jacket and jeans sits on rocks; the other woman, wearing a pink hat, is seated next to a bucket and blue tub.

I am an full-time faculty member in the Department of Global Health at McGill University and co-coordinator of the upcoming BA program in public and global health.

Education

I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Hull. My dissertation research examines loneliness and social capital among older women in a Northern UK city, exploring how diverse forms of capital—social, cultural, and symbolic—intersect with the physical and social realities of aging. The study highlights how overlapping identities, such as gender, age, class, and health status, shape women’s experiences of loneliness and their ability to access social resources. It critiques the marginalization of older women’s voices within societal and academic narratives, emphasizing the need to center their perspectives in discussions of aging and social connection. My PhD and dissertation research was fully funded by the University of Hull.

I hold two Master of Science degrees: i) Medical Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh, and my thesis was about biological citenzenship and Parkinson's disease groups in Scotland. ii) Gerontology from the University of Southampton, where I researched universal pensions and their effect on the rural ageing population in Peru. Additionally, I was awarded the Leslie Kirkley Fellowship at the Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford. I collaborated with the institution´s several projects while working on a proposal about the co-production of health in rural areas of Perú.

I studied my BA in Anthropology at the Universidad Católica de Perú. My thesis focused on total institutions, experiences of ageing, and life projects.