Davina Kaur Patel

Davina Kaur Patel is a Doctoral Research Fellow (Research Fellow) at the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, appointed in August 2023. She concurrently teaches medical students 25% of her time in social medicine courses covering migration, racism, climate change, and drug addiction.

Her academic credentials include:

• MBBS Medicine from University College London (2013)
• Intercalated BSc in International Health from University College London (2009)
• Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene from Royal College of Physicians, U.K. (2016)
• MPhil in International Community Health from University of Oslo (2018)

Patel's research centers on reimagining human-soil relationships through ethnographic studies of Punjab's small-scale farmers amid socioecological crisis, integrating medical anthropology, feminist science and technology studies, and planetary health frameworks. She investigates migration-related health inequities and racism's impact on public health, drawing from environmental humanities to address intersectional health injustices in the Anthropocene.

Her publications demonstrate transdisciplinary rigor, examining healthcare access for undocumented migrants and historical antibiotic journeys across the Indian Ocean, revealing connections between colonial trade routes and contemporary antimicrobial resistance patterns.

Key recognitions include:

• Research Stay Abroad Grant from Norwegian Research Council (2024/5)
• Research Grant from Oslo Church City Mission (2017)

Patel volunteers as a physician at Oslo's Health Centre for Undocumented Migrants and contributes to the Racism, Discrimination & Health Working Group. Her teaching spans eight medical curricula modules, emphasizing critical social medicine perspectives.

Embedded in the 'Anthropogenic Soils' NFR project and affiliated with Medical Humanities: Anthropology and History and Social Medicine research groups, she bridges clinical practice with scholarly inquiry on human-environmental health interdependencies.