BRIGIT OBRIST is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and senior scientist at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel Switzerland. She received her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Basel in 1990. Her work experience include 30 years of teaching on BA, MA and PhD levels, mainly in Anthropology, African Studies and Public Health, at various universities in Europe and Africa, and directing various applied health projects. Brigit led a medical anthropology research group with post-doctoral and PhD projects in Germany, Switzerland, East and West Africa in the fields of malaria, urban health, sexual and reproductive health, ageing and health, and one health. Her latest project was on Participation in Social Health Protection in Tanzania (Swiss National Science Foundation). She is a member of the Swiss Anthropological Association, the European Assocation of Social Anthropologists and of the Society of Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. In 2019, she received the Teaching Excellence Award of the University of Basel.