Dr. Viola Hörbst

Viola Hörbst was a researcher at the Center for African and Brasilian Studies (CEAB), Higher Institute for Social and Political Studies (ISCSP) at the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL). She is Vice President of the Medical Anthropology Network within the European Association for Social Anthropology (EASA) as well as the principal investigator and coordinator of the research project Dynamics and Differences of Assisted Reproduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: Technology Transfer, Transnational Networks and Appropriation of Practices funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

At MPI-MMG she worked as a member of the international working group on medical diversity.