Research interests

• Medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, epidemic governance, and global health policies
• Biomedical technologies, prevention, care, and risk
• Biopolitics and Public Health, vulnerabilities, and health inequalities
• Knowledge production, academic  publication logics, and Global South–North asymmetries
• Rights-based movements, LGBTQ+ activism, and contemporary political transformations in Latin America

Memberships

• Latin American Anthropology Association (ALA) – board member
• Argentine Anthropologists’ Professional Association (CGA) – board member (2018-2022)
• International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) – Commission: Anthropology of Pandemics
• Argentine Health Anthropology Network (REDASA)
• Anthropology and Health Program. Institute of Anthropological Science, School of Philosophy and Literature, University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
• Body and Health Anthropology Research Nucleus (NUPACS). Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
• Argentine Interdisciplinary Aids Society, Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (SAISIDA-AMBA)

Education

18/05/2023. PhD in Anthropology. University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Thesis title: Facing the "end of HIV/AIDS": an ethnography on local responses to the epidemic and the experience of people on long-term treatment. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Susana Margulies (UBA). Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Ceres Victora (UFRGS).  With honors. Grade: 10 (outstanding) with recommendation for publication. External jury/reviewers: Prof. Dr. Mónica Franch (UFPB), Prof. Dr. Ramiro Fernández Unsain (USP), Prof. Dr. Alejandra Rosario Roca (UBA/UNPAZ). 

17/06/2015. 5-year BA degree (MA equivalent) in Social and Cultural Anthropology. University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Major: Anthropology and Social Sciences. Minor: Education. School of Philosophy and Literature. With honors. Overall graduating score: 9.54/10.

Teaching

• 2025. Lecturer. National University of José Clemente Paz (UNPAZ, Argentina). Course: Anthropology of Health.
• 2024. Fieldwork supervisor. National University of José Clemente Paz (UNPAZ, Argentina). Course: Basic clinical-community articulation I, Fieldwork scenario.
• 2023. Assistant professor. School of Philosophy and Literature, University of Buenos Aires. Course:  "Thinking About Epidemics from the Anthropology of Health: The Case of HIV-AIDS".
• 2017-2023. Graduate instructor. University of José Clemente Paz (UNPAZ, Argentina). Course: Anthropology of Health.
• 2022. Invited specialist. National Residency in Epidemiology. National Health Ministry (Argentina).Seminar title: “Ends of epidemics” at Workshop on qualitative methods for health-related research.
• 2021. Graduate teaching assistant. MA in Social Anthropology, University of Buenos Aires. Course: “Anthropology of Health”.
• 2019. Graduate teaching assistant. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Course: "Qualitative research methods for Social Sciences"
• 2016-2018. Graduate teaching assistant. School of Philosophy and Literature, University of Buenos Aires. Course: "Anthropology of Health".

Research project

PrEP-ing at the end of HIV/AIDS: An anthropological study of Combination Prevention and PrEP in Argentina, focuses on the implementation of Combination HIV Prevention, a global strategy promoted by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to end AIDS by 2030. Combination Prevention prioritizes the preventive use of antiretroviral drugs—most notably pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—and targets so-called key populations identified through higher HIV prevalence rates, including gay (cisgender) men and other men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender people, sex workers, and people who inject drugs.

As comprehensive HIV/AIDS policies and programs have increasingly given way to more circumscribed biomedical approaches, the goal of “ending AIDS” has come to rely on early diagnosis and treatment, sustained viral suppression (undetectability) among people living with HIV, and the expanded use of PrEP. Within this framework, HIV/AIDS is no longer framed primarily as a global threat but as a potentially eradicable condition, contingent on broad and sustained access to testing and antiretroviral treatment.

Drawing on critical medical anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and the anthropology of public policy, the project traces global–local entanglements among biotechnologies, institutions, policymakers, health professionals, activists, and PrEP users. Taking the implementation of PrEP in Argentina as its analytical entry point, the project adopts a “study through policy” approach to examine how HIV prevention policies are formulated, enacted, and implemented through complex and often non-linear interactions among actors, technologies, and institutions, thereby illuminating the making of contemporary regimes of HIV prevention and care.

Peer-reviewed articles

Gagliolo, Agostina A., & Margulies, S. (2025). “Come on, I’m accompanying you”: Forms of Care in a Municipal HIV/AIDS Program in Buenos Aires. Revista del Museo de Antropología, 18(2), 193–202.

Oliveira, K., Ferreira, B., Silva, F., Greiner, L., Bonomi, C., Silva, F., Almeida, M., Bercht, G., Brambilla, I., Gagliolo, A., García, G., Pereira, R., Passamani, G., Kauss, B. Vallejo, F., Hurtado, J. and Machado, A.(2025)PrEP Public Policies for HIV Prevention in South America: An Intersectional Analysis. BMC Public Health (2025).

Gagliolo, Agostina A. (2024). Becoming-with HIV: An Embodied History of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Argentina. Etnografías Contemporáneas, 10(18).

Gagliolo, Agostina A., & Margulies, S. (2022). Between Control and Uncertainty: The Everyday Production of Undetectability. Vivência: Revista de Antropologia, 60.

Gagliolo, Agostina A. (2021). All the Other Stuff: Treatment as Prevention and the Embodiment of Undetectability. Medical Anthropology, 40(8), 759–771.

Beltrán, M., Basombrío, A., Gagliolo, A. A., Leroux, C., Masso, F., Quarracino, C., Rodríguez Tablado, M. C., Cesanelli-Pomponi, V., & Rodríguez, E. (2021). Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding COVID-19 in Argentina: A Cross-Sectional Study. Medicina (Buenos Aires), 81, 496–500.

Gagliolo, Agostina A., & Margulies, S. (2020). Threatened and Threatening: Undetectability, Risk, and Sexuality in the Era of HIV Treatment as Prevention. Anthropologica, 38(44), 209–234.

Gagliolo, Agostina A. (2019). Personal Relationships and Health Policies in a Municipal HIV/AIDS Program in Buenos Aires Province. Cadernos de Campo, 28(1), 84–107.

Gagliolo, Agostina A. (2017). Reflections on Antiretroviral Treatment as Prevention. Cuadernos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano – Series Especiales, 4(1), 94–100.

Special Issues – Editorial Work

Gagliolo, A., & Lenton, D. (2024). Introduction: Latin America and the (Re)Emergence of Extreme Right-Wing Movements. PUBLICAR – Journal of Anthropology and Social Sciences, 36, 5–10.

Ferrero, L., Gagliolo, A., & Lenton, D. (2023). Thirty Years of PUBLICAR: Publishing as an Act of Resistance. PUBLICAR – Journal of Anthropology and Social Sciences, 34, 5–11.

Monograph

Gagliolo, Agostina A. (2023). Facing the “End of HIV/AIDS”: An Ethnography of Local Responses to the Epidemic and the Experiences of People on Long-Term Treatment. PhD Dissertation, University of Buenos Aires.