show Natali Theresa Valdez Graduate Student

B.A., University Of Florida, 2009

medical anthropology, science and technology studies, public health, epigenetics, clinical trials, prenatal interventions nvvaldez@uci.edu https://uci.academia.edu/NataliValdez Natali Valdez is a doctoral candidate and her work lies at the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, and public health. She specializes in applying feminist ethnographic methods to study scientific knowledge production. The dissertation examines epigenetics, clinical trials, prenatal interventions, and obesity/diabetes in the United States and United Kingdom. Her work documents the ways in which epigenetics is changing health policy, risk, and surveillance on ethnically diverse pregnant women deemed obese. Department of Anthropology