A cultural and medical anthropologist, Livia Garofalo is a researcher with Data & Society’s Trustworthy Infrastructures team, where she focuses on technologies and infrastructures of healthcare, broadly defined. She is interested in understanding how people experience and make meaning in times of crisis, how conditions of illness and distress are treated inside and outside clinical settings, and how power and subjectivity show up in everyday life. Her recent projects have examined the delivery of critical care; the intersection of labor, technology, and health; and mental health and the platformization of psychotherapy. She has done research in Europe, Latin America, and the US.

Livia holds a PhD in anthropology and a master’s in public health from Northwestern University. Her doctoral research on inequality, trauma, and economic crisis in intensive care units in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was funded by the US Fulbright Program, the National Science Foundation, and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. She also holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in cultural anthropology from the University of Bologna, Italy.