Nadia Gaber, PhD

Nadia Gaber received her PhD from the joint program in medical anthropology from UCSF and UC Berkeley, and is obtaining her MD at UCSF with support from the National Institutes of Health and Medical Scientist Training Program. Her research on the politics of urban health and safety in the U.S. considers how the social and material legacies of industrial capitalism flow between body and environment. Her current book project, based on her dissertation, "Life After Water: Detroit, Flint and the Postindustrial Politics of Health," examines water as a social force through which contemporary biopolitics of race, economy and environment are being reworked. Aligned with grassroots struggles for safe and affordable water, her work explores the cultures of life assembled amidst urban infrastructural disrepair. It combines critical theory and ethnography with community-led participatory research to offer a portrait of the uneven landscapes of late-industrial life.

She is a proud member of We the People of Detroit's Community Research Collective, the Critical Resistance/Oakland Power Projects, and the UCSF Climate Psychiatry Working Group.