Ugo F. Edu

Biography

Ugo Edu is a medical anthropologist working at the intersection of medical anthropology, public health, Black feminism, and science, technology, and society studies (STS). Her scholarship takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the conceptualizations and enactments of health that are counterproductive to a quest for health equity as they manifest in the practices, research, and curricula of medicine, public/global health, and the sciences. She focuses on the politics of reproduction, reproductive health, body modifying techniques, aesthetics, race, gender, and health equity in both global and national contexts. Her book project: The “Family Planned”: Racial Aesthetics, Sterilization, and Reproductive Fugitivity in Brazil, traces the influence of an economy of race, aesthetics, and sexuality on reproductive and sterilization practices of women in Brazil. She experiments with other writing forms and creative practices for public engagement and recently published a bilingual edition of her full-length play titled, Securing Ties (English)/Em Busca da Ligadura (Portuguese), which is loosely based on the book project.