Marta Roriz is a social anthropologist, with a master’s degree in Medical Anthropology and a PhD awarded in Social Anthropology by the University of Coimbra. Her research and academic trajectory stands on the broader field of social studies of health, with particular relevance to medical anthropology, sociology of health and social movements in health fields, having participated in national and international research projects among these fields.
Currently, her research interests are related to the Political Economy of Health and the political determinants of obesity and metabolic diseases, as well as the uses of ethnographic methodologies applied to clinical contexts and to power and political spheres.