Dr Jónína Einarsdóttirn (JE) is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and the former Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, University of Iceland. She has a PhD (2000) in Anthropology from Stockholm University, Sweden. JE has conducted extensive fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau and Iceland, and had shorter assignments in Mozambique, Malawi and Sierra Leone. In Guinea-Bissau, JE has studied maternal grief, child death, infanticide, breastfeeding and child trafficking. In Iceland, she has done research on ethical questions related to treatment of extremely preterm infants and the implications of their birth on the daily life of their families, domestic violence and punishment of children, as well as the 20th century customs to send urban children to stay and work on farms during the summertime. Additional themes of focus are failed states, aid and health care systems, as well as cholera, Ebola and COVID-19.