She is running the ERC research project, Global Future Health, which studies the intersecting domains of health and development through multi-sited ethnography of a maternal-child nutrition initiative. Her previous research examined the emergence of obesity as a diagnostic category in Guatemala. With Christine Labuski, she edited the Somatosphere series, “The Ethnographic Case,” which has recently become transformed into an experimental public-review book, published open-access with Mattering Press. She is is an Associate Editor of Somatosphere.