Dr Daniela Heil

Biography

My research expertise is in social and medical anthropology. I have established a sound reputation in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and well being research. My research expertise derives from, and works with, the conjunctures and disjunctures of Australian Indigenous practices and mainstream health approaches. The overall aim of my research has been to set up, develop, elaborate and maintain approaches that mediate national Indigenous health policy agendas with the socio-cultural differences of localised Indigenous knowledges, practices and understandings. To date, my anthropological fieldwork and related research have been situated in Australian Indigenous communities in New South Wales, Western Australia and the Torres Straits. Further research interests address gestational surrogacy experiences and practices. Medical anthropology, Critical medical anthropology, Australian Aboriginal anthropology, Indigenous health and health policy, Anthropology of the body, personhood and self, Anthropology of health and well-being; gestational surrogacy, kinship and moral order.

Research Interest

Anthropology