Annemiek Richters (MD, PhD) started her professional career as a physician and subsequently developed into a medical anthropologist. She retired in 2010 as Professor of Culture, Health and Illness at Leiden University Medical Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, but remained affiliated with the department.

Since 2005 she has been a research staff member of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam, cluster Health, Care and the Body.

Topics of her research included: gender and health, the quality of reproductive health care for migrant women in the Netherlands, the cultural comparison of medicine and women’s body politics in the context of globalization, and sexual violence, trauma and healing. Over the past few years her research has focused in particular on community-based psychosocial care in post-genocide Rwanda. She supports a variety of activities in the field of health and human rights.

Last Modified: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:33:41 SAST