Headshot of Tiên-Dung Hà1st Place Winner

Tiên-Dung Hà

Stanford University

Hà is a PhD student in Anthropology at Stanford University. Her research interests are concerned with anthropology of science, postcolonial science, genomics and identity, and postwar reparation and reconciliation in Vietnam.

 

Headshot of Sharon Gillard2nd Place Winner

Sharon Gillard

University of North Carolina Charlotte

Sharon Gillard is a dual master’s student in Public Health and Anthropology programs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). She holds a bachelor’s degree from UNC Charlotte and majored in anthropology with a minor in linguistics. Her concentration in the Public Health program is community health practice. She has collaborated with UNC Charlotte faculty members, the Women’s Health Equity Institute, and community partners. She has researched and advocated for the health disparities Black women experience in Charlotte Mecklenburg County, NC. Her interests include understanding inequities in holistic healthcare concerning marginalized cultural groups, the connection between mental health, and how it can often be overlooked. Cultural values and cultural identities can play a significant role in health care decisions that are made. Her research includes solutions for mental healthcare disparities and ways that public health can incorporate approaches by working with communities to identify healthcare barriers that are experienced.

 

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3rd Place Winner

Carly Thompson-Campitor

Northern Arizona University

Carly Thompson-Campitor is completing her dissertation research on the subjectivities of Lyme
disease advocates and contested illness knowledge production in the Interdisciplinary Health
PhD program at Northern Arizona University where she is a Presidential Fellow. Her doctoral work examines the relationship between embodied knowledge and contested illness knowledge production, the moral and psychic dimensions of patient advocacy, practices (and limits) of biocitizenship in the context of contested illness politics, and contested illness harms.

Her Peter K. New paper is a reflexive, embodied account of her research with Lyme disease advocates. In it, she examines the intricacies, value, and limitations of engaging in “insider research” with Lyme disease advocates as they work to drive legislative, biomedical, and cultural knowledge change around the illness.