Nina Zeldes

Nina Zeldes is an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, holding the title of Associated Member of the Medical Anthropology | Global Health unit. She is also a Health Researcher at the Health Research Group, Public Citizen (Washington DC), focusing on health policy, drug safety, and FDA oversight. She holds a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin (2019) and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh.

Her doctoral research explored healthcare access and insurance expectations among German, Japanese, and Indian highly skilled migrants in the U.S., funded by the DAAD. She has also served as a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University's Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics. Her work critically examines how categories like 'immigrant' and 'expatriate' intersect with class and cultural factors in healthcare systems.

Research interests span global health inequities, transnational health policies, and the intersection of migration and healthcare access. She advocates for decolonial frameworks in global health and analyzes structural barriers in healthcare delivery.

Key recent publications include explorations of pharmaceutical HIV prevention's affective economies, decolonial approaches to migration and health, and radical health advocacy movements.

Professional affiliations include the Health Research Group at Public Citizen, where she addresses drug safety and healthcare reform, and collaborations with global health initiatives. She has contributed to projects funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).