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Dr. Kaveri Qureshi is a Senior Lecturer at the Global Health Policy Unit within Social Policy at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, where she also serves as Associate Director of GENDER.ED, the university's hub for gender and sexualities. Her interdisciplinary work bridges critical public health, anthropology, and sociology, with extensive fieldwork conducted in the UK with minoritized South Asian populations, as well as in Indian and Pakistani Punjab.
Dr. Qureshi completed her doctoral and postgraduate education at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh in 2019, she held teaching positions at the University of St Andrews and the Lahore University of Management Sciences, and research fellowships at Oxford and Sussex universities. Before her academic career, she worked for Options, the research consultancy wing of Marie Stopes International, and various research consultancies in sexual and reproductive health and rights in Pakistan.
Dr. Qureshi's research program spans three interconnected strands focused on intersectional inequalities. Her first strand examines how racial capitalism, patriarchy, and coloniality converge to impact health and economic opportunities, particularly among minoritized Pakistani communities in East London. Her monograph Chronic illness in a Pakistani labour diaspora (2019) analyzes how migration histories and deindustrialization manifest in disproportionate chronic illness. She has extended this work to pandemic experiences and food industry practices affecting migrant workers.
Her second strand investigates how gender, racialization, migration, and class shape family and intimate life across transnational contexts. Through fieldwork with Indian Punjabi families in the UK and Punjab, she has examined marriage migration, transnational parenting, and youth transitions. Her work on marital instability and divorce within legal pluralism contexts is documented in her monograph Marital breakdown among British Asians (2016).
Her third strand explores the reciprocal relationship between family dynamics and health, addressing how unhappy family life becomes injurious to health and how women's healthcare access in Pakistani Punjab is mediated through kinship structures. She is currently writing a book on how social positioning differentiates Pakistani women's reproductive health and labor.
Dr. Qureshi's work consistently appears in high-impact journals and edited volumes, with recent publications addressing pandemic experiences, gender-based violence, transnational family law, and health equity. Her 2024 edited volume 'Muslim Woman'/Muslim women: Lived Experiences beyond Religion and Gender in South Asia and Its Diasporas showcases diverse Muslim women's experiences while challenging dominant concepts of agency.
As an educator, Dr. Qureshi convenes courses including 'Health and human rights' and 'Gender and development,' and lectures on numerous topics including 'Anthropology of global health,' 'Race, power and social policy,' and various research methods courses. She is passionate about supervising postgraduate research connected to health equity and gender justice, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Dr. Qureshi has served as editor for Anthropology & Medicine and Medicine, Anthropology, Theory, and currently sits on the editorial board of Medical Anthropology Quarterly. She approaches scholarly reviewing as 'feminist solidarity' and advocates for anti-extractive reading practices that center marginalized voices.
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