Narelle Warren is Senior Visiting Fellow at UNU-IIGH. She is an internationally recognised medical anthropologist and health sociologist specialising in interdisciplinary ethnographic research exploring the experiences of health, illness and care for structurally vulnerable communities.
Narelle is focused on the fields of disability studies, neurodegenerative diseases, and ageing to contribute new insights on the intersections of these issues with gender, care, global public health, and wellbeing. Her research adopts a comparative methodological approach to combine these areas to explore the relationship between chronic health conditions and practices of care in people’s local moral worlds.
Her work is interdisciplinary and collaborative: she works with academic colleagues and community and health organisations to inform policy development and legislation. Her research spans a range of areas and disciplines in addition to anthropology and sociology, including global public health, health services research, rehabilitation, disability studies, neuropsychology, and critical social psychology.