Amber Wutich

Amber Wutich is a **President’s Professor and Regents Professor** at Arizona State University (ASU) and Director of the **Center for Global Health**. Her work focuses on the intersection of resource inequities, health, and cultural dynamics, particularly in Latin America and globally. She leads the **Global Ethnohydrology Study** and has conducted fieldwork in Paraguay and Bolivia. Her research emphasizes how unjust resource systems impact well-being, with a focus on water and food insecurity. She co-authored *Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health* (2019) and is a co-editor of the journal *Field Methods*.

Dr. Wutich is a leader in social science methods, co-authoring *Analyzing Qualitative Data: Systematic Approaches* (2016) and teaching courses on research design, coding, and thematic analysis. Her teaching excellence was recognized with the **Carnegie CASE Arizona Professor of the Year** award. She has secured over **$34 million in grants** from the NSF, USDA, and others, supporting interdisciplinary and community-partnered research. Her work bridges academia and practice, advocating for participatory approaches and modular, adaptive water infrastructure (MAD systems) to address climate change and water justice.

Her research spans themes including gender equity in water fetching, water-sharing norms post-disasters, and the moral economies of resource distribution. She emphasizes collaborative, ethical methodologies to address systemic inequalities and promote global health equity.