The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology is delighted to welcome Dr. Agostina Gagliolo, who joined our institute on 1 October 2025 after being awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The MSCA grant, worth €217.965, will support her project, “PrEP-ing at the end of HIV/AIDS: an anthropological study of Combination Prevention and PrEP in Argentina”. Her investigation will focus on the implementation of Combination HIV Prevention in Argentina – a comprehensive global strategy of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) aimed at eliminating AIDS by 2030. During the next 24 months, Dr. Gagliolo’s ethnographic research will explore how global-local entanglements involving biotechnologies, institutions, policymakers, health professionals, activists and PrEP users and their experiences, come together in the making of Combined Prevention.

Dr. Gagliolo holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and has received several merit-based fellowships, including doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships and academic exchange grants in the U.S. and Brazil. Her work, situated at the nexus of Medical Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and the Anthropology of Policies and Institutions, has mainly focused on the contemporary governance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with emphasis on the transformations in global health policies and biotechnologies, particularly in light of their articulation with the local level and the experiences of people engaged in long-term treatment.

Dr. Gagliolo is a member of research groups in Argentina and Brazil, and has also taught several courses in medical anthropology at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Jose Clemente Paz (Argentina). She is currently editor-in-chief for the scientific journal “PUBLICAR – en Antropología y Ciencias Sociales”, and has also engaged in collaborative work with Argentina's National HIV/AIDS Directory, LGBTQ+ and HIV-related civil society organizations. She is a board member for the Latin American Anthropology Association (ALA) and has been a board member for the Argentinian Anthropologists’ Professional Association (CGA).