Her research interests include science and power, global health, and the intersections between science studies and critical medical anthropology. Her current book project (tentatively titled The Science of Inequality: AIDS, Africa, and the Rise of American Global Health) offers a critical ethnography of AIDS expertise in the U.S. and Uganda, and describes the uncomfortable mix of preventable suffering and scientific productivity that characterizes contemporary global health science. Her teaching interests include global health, science and technology studies, medical anthropology, bioethics, and urban ethnography.