Medical anthropology, global health, qualitative research, applied research, community engagement

Elena Jirovsky-Platter is researcher and instructor at the Medical University of Vienna, Center of Public Health, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Unit Medical Anthropology and Global Health. She is specialized in the anthropology of sexual and reproductive health (spec. female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)), migrant health, health worker, and infectious diseases. She has extended qualitative research experience in Burkina Faso, Austria, Chad, and Liberia. She received the prestigious DOC-team award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2007-2010). She has been involved in the Ebola response in West Africa from 2014-2016 and collaborated as senior researcher in two qualitative research projects by WHO/MOH in Liberia on the experiences of Ebola survivors and on the working situation of Liberian health workers during the Ebola outbreak. She has been lead-researcher and senior researcher in several EU-projects (SONAR-global, EUR-HUMAN, HURAPRIM) and was principal investigator in multiple national and international projects (e.g. EIGE - 2020 Estimation of Girls at Risk of FGM).