João Biehl

João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Brazil LAB at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. In his ethnographic work, Biehl explores how science and technology move from laboratories to markets, health policies, and unequal lifeworlds in the Global South, with a focus on the pharmaceuticalization of care and the judicialization of the right to health. In his historical anthropological work, Biehl traces nature-based healing practices and the afterlives of anti-colonial insurgencies in southern settler frontiers. Biehl is currently leading a new transdisciplinary and collaborative research project, “Indigenizing Conservation Research and Policy,” which seeks to incorporate Indigenous principles and practices into effective tools for promoting a sustainable Amazon.