About
Liza Buchbinder is an anthropologist and internist within the field of social medicine, conducting research and providing care to under-resourced populations. During medical training, she completed her PhD in medical anthropology and returned to the Togolese village of her former Peace Corps service, traveling across West Africa to track the community’s diaspora of adolescent labor migrants. Her work is now the basis for a book manuscript on the limits of naming violence against adolescent domestic servants through the rights discourse on child trafficking.
Dr. Buchbinder’s other research projects focus on critical human rights & development. As a clinician and anthropologist working in a diverse array of settings, she is also working on an ethnography that explores physician-patient relations and physician burnout.