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Alana Helberg-Proctor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in the intersections of race, medical racism, and health policy in Europe, particularly focusing on how 'race' and ethnicity are represented in biomedical research and healthcare practices. Her teaching and research also explore the impact of historical contexts, such as slavery, on modern health inequalities. She obtained her BA in Liberal Arts and MA in Global Political Economy from The New School in New York City, following which she completed her MSc in Public Health and PhD at Maastricht University. In 2021, she was awarded a Marie Curie Sklodowska Fellowship for her research at KU Leuven in Belgium and joined the University of Amsterdam in 2023. She has received various academic grants, including a significant tender from the Dutch Ministry of Health to explore the health impacts of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade on descendants of enslaved people in the Netherlands. Alana actively supervises PhD candidates and contributes to interdisciplinary research methods, advocating for a critical approach to understanding health and illness in socio-political contexts.
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