Rosalynn Adeline Vega

Rosalynn Adeline Vega is a medical anthropologist and social epidemiologist. She is associate professor of global health and director of medical humanities at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her prior research explores humanized birth, intersectional racializing processes, citizenship, healthcare corruption, narco culture, and medical migration in Mexico and the US-Mexico borderlands. Her more recent scholarship applies a science, technology, and society (STS) lens to syndemics, epigenetics, the microbiome, and mitochondria. Her work has been published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese in the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Europe. Her scholarship has been recognized by the Ford Foundation, the Society for Medical Anthropology, the Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation, among others. Her research has been funded by a UC MEXUS Research Grant, a Tinker Grant, the Roselyn Lindheim Award, the UC Global Health Institute, the Human Rights Center Fellowship, the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, and NSF ADVANCE.