Dr. Edmée Ballif

I am a medical anthropologist and sociologist with a focus on public health domains such as parenting advice and nutrition.

I am currently coordinating the Gender Studies Platform at the University of Lausanne and am a research affiliate at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich.

My research is centered on the social construction of « good » parents and how public health programs contribute to the (re)production of social inequalities based on factors such as gender, sex, race, class, or nationality. I deploy qualitative research methods and inductive research designs to reveal the ways in which health polices perpetuate social hierarchies.