Sahra Gibbon

Sahra Gibbon is a Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University College London. Her research focuses on the intersection of biosocial sciences, health inequalities, and post-genomic medicine, with fieldwork in Brazil, Cuba, and the UK.

• PhD in Anthropology (2003)
• MSc in Medical Anthropology (1998)
• MA in Anthropology (1996)

Research interests include:

• Health inequities in the Anthropocene
• Biosocial approaches to birth cohorts
• Personalised medicine and genetic ancestry
• Environmental health impacts
• Interdisciplinary methodologies
• Postcolonial health systems

Her publications span topics such as birth cohort dynamics, genomic medicine, climate crisis impacts, and critical epidemiology, often addressing how social structures shape health outcomes. Current projects include the Wellcome Trust-funded Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene.

Scientific awards include:

• Wellcome Trust University Award
• Wellcome Trust Investigator Award

She supervises PhD students working on:

• Indigenous health
• Gender and chronic pain
• Medical detection technologies
• End-of-life care
• Environmental health in Latin America