Tina joined the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Research Unit Medical Anthropology | Global Health) as a research associate in October 2023. In her doctoral research, she is examining peer support workers for mental health in German and international contexts. Her previous work has focused, on the transnational mobility of medical personnel and patients, global (mental) health, and questions of good life and death in the context of palliative and hospice care. As an ethnologist and political scientist with a postgraduate degree in International Cooperation for Sustainable Development, she is also committed to fostering critical perspectives on international development cooperation. In doing so, she draws on her own experience in governmental and non-governmental organizations both in Germany and abroad. Across regions and disciplines, she engages with issues of research ethics, participatory research methods and knowledge transfer. In October 2024, she joined the first cohort of the interdisciplinary Global Health doctoral program at Charité.

• since November 2023: Research associate at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin (Medical Anthropology | Global Health Unit)
• May - September 2023: Research associate in the team "Risk Management, Security Research and Innovation Transfer", German Red Cross General Secretariat Berlin (focus: civil protection and disaster preparedness)
• January - December 2022: Postgraduate program "International Cooperation for Sustainable Development" at the Centre for Rural Development (SLE), Humboldt University of Berlin
• November 2020 - July 2021: Student assistant in the "Nationwide Research Network Applied Surveillance and Testing" (B-FAST), University Medical Center Göttingen
• 2017 - 2021: M.A. Global Politics: Structures and Borders & M.A. Ethnology, Georg-August-University Göttingen (Thesis title: „Medical Mobilities between Tanzania and India: Practitioners’ Perspectives from Dar es Salaam“

• April 2019 - July 2021: Student Assistant at the Chair of Political Sociology and Social Policy, Institute of Sociology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
• October 2016 - November 2020: Student assistant and tutor, Institute of Social Anthropology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
• June 2015 - May 2018: Student Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Department of Religious Diversity)
• 2014-2018: 2-subject B.A. Ethnology & Political Science, Georg-August-University Göttingen (Title of thesis: "In search of the good death: Changing discourses and practices of end-of-life care in Sub-Saharan Africa")

Awards and prizes

• Niedersachsenstipendium 2019/20
• Adam von Trott Study Bursary, 2019
• Finanzielle Forschungsförderung durch das Programm "Kreativität im Studium" an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, März 2019 - Januar 2020
• Deutschlandstipendium 2018/19
• PROMOS-Teilstipendium, Oktober 2018 - Februar 2019
• Deutschlandstipendium 2017/18

Summer 2026

MA: “Community Health Workers and Peer Support Workers at the Intersection of Care Work, Intersectionality, and Global Health” (Seminar)

Winter 2025/26

BA: “Care Without Borders? Anthropological Perspectives on Mobile Care Work” (Seminar)

BA: “Between Worlds: Reading Course on Psychological Anthropology and Global Mental Health”

Summer 2025

BA: “(Un)Healthy Lebenswelten: Reading Course on Medical Anthropology & Global Health”

Winter 2024/25

BA: “Topics and Theories in Social and Cultural Anthropology” (Proseminar)

BA: “Medical Mobilities in the Global South” (Seminar)

Summer 2024

BA: “Methods of Social and Cultural Anthropology”

Winter 2023/24:

BA: “Topics and Theories in Social and Cultural Anthropology” (Proseminar)

Winter 2016/17, 2017/18, 2019/20 (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen):

BA: “Introduction to Ethnology and Academic Research” (Tutorial)

Research and Study Visits

•    Since summer 2025: Research in Germany

•    August–October 2022: Research stay in Chad and Cameroon in cooperation with KfW Development Bank as part of the SLE Program

•    September–October 2019: Research stay in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

•    May–June 2019: Study visit at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK

•    November 2018–March 2019: Semester abroad at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Presentations

• “Exploring (Technology-Enabled) Peer Support for Mental Health in Rural Germany”, Workshop Beyond Access: Ethical, Sustainable, and Activist Perspectives in Global Digital Mental Health, co-minded & ETH Zürich, 26.-27.03.2026
• “How global is global health? Critical observations from a PhD project in motion”, Workshop Interventions in context: critical perspectives on global health implementation, TU München, 02.-03.03.2026
• “Voices in Dis/Harmony: Assessing the co-creative element in a research project on natural resource conflicts in rural Chad and Cameroon”, Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA), online, 23.-25. September 2024

• "Auf der Suche nach guter Gesundheit in Dar es Salaam, Tansania", Poster-Präsentation im Rahmen des Ethnologischen Sommersymposiums des Frobenius-Instituts für kulturanthropologische Forschung, Frankfurt am Main, 04.-05.07.2019
• "'Everybody dies, few people kill themselves': An anthropological contribution to the understanding of suicide in Southeast Asia" im Rahmen der 2^nd Student Southeast Asia Conference, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 19.-21.05.2017