Alice Servy

Alice Servy is a lecturer in social and cultural anthropology at the University of Strasbourg, affiliated with the SAGE laboratory (Sociétés, acteurs, gouvernement en Europe) within the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on health, gender, and therapeutic mobility in Oceania, particularly in Vanuatu and French Polynesia, using ethnographic and qualitative methods.

Research Interests:

• Medical anthropology and health systems in the Pacific
• Gender, sexuality, and reproductive autonomy
• Therapeutic mobility and medical evacuations for cancer patients
• Mental health of cancer patients in low-resource settings
• Violence, education, and social change in urban Melanesia
• Global health policy translation and local adaptation

Her recent work analyzes inter-island and international medical evacuations of cancer patients in French Polynesia and the mental health of cancer patients in Vanuatu. She has extensively studied the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, gender-based violence, and the social implications of global health categories such as 'men who have sex with men' (MSM) in local contexts.

Scientific Contributions:

• Published in journals such as Culture, Health & Sexuality, Oceania, and Anthropologie & Santé
• Contributed chapters to edited volumes on family violence, global health, and Pacific studies
• Directed special journal issues and served on editorial boards
• Presented at major conferences including the European Society of Oceanists (ESfO)

Teaching and Leadership:

• Teaches anthropology and qualitative methods in health programs at the bachelor’s and master’s levels
• Director of studies for the first year of the social sciences track in the Health Sciences degree
• Elected member of the National University Council (CNU), Section 20: Ethnology, Prehistory, Biological Anthropology
• Member of the UNICANCER Overseas Group (SHS and Cancerology)
• Member of the editorial board of Anthropologie & Santé

Laboratory and Institutional Affiliations:

• SAGE Laboratory (Sociétés, acteurs, gouvernement en Europe)
• Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Strasbourg
• Interdisciplinary Institute for Social Interventions and Issues (Ines)
• Programme I-DEA (Illustration et Documentation audiovisuelles des Études Aréales)