Gabrielle Robbins

Gabrielle Robbins is a PhD candidate in the History/Anthropology/Science, Technology & Society program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research examines the politics of health and freedom in highland Madagascar amid cascading eco-sociological crises. Current projects focus on Madagascar’s commercialization of a domestically-produced Covid treatment, especially the negotiations of health, sovereignty, and industrial change which result from this pandemic response. At the broadest level, her research addresses the stakes of both global inequality and ecological breakdown for stable medicine access, and the creative solutions undertaken by local communities and government initiatives to ensure health given such overlapping challenges.