Carla Rodrigues is a social scientist with a background in medical sociology and anthropology, working at the intersection of (global) health, science and technology, and everyday life. Since 2006, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from diverse research teams, contributing to a range of social science, inter- and multi-disciplinary research and intervention projects.

She has conducted research on various—primarily health-related— topics, including the prevention and management of infection diseases; the use, dispensing and prescription of pharmaceuticals and food supplements; self-care and therapeutic relationships, trajectories and pluralism; and healthcare and regulatory interventions. Across these areas, she has explored social processes, practices and interactions around health, risk, uncertainty, trust and knowledge construction.

For her PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (within the Health, Care and the Body programme group, Anthropology Department), Carla conducted community-based research in Maputo, Mozambique, where she studied the social embeddedness of everyday medicine use (for both medical and non-medical purposes), with a particular focus on pharmaceuticalisation and trusting processes.

Since 2018, Carla has contributed to several research projects, academic initiatives, scientific committees and advisory boards aimed at studying and addressing antibiotic use, the social dimensions of antimicrobial resistance and, more recently, interdisciplinary microbiome research.

She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the NWO-funded research consortium MetaHealth, which looks at microbial, sociocultural and care contexts in early life. She also serves as a Co-Principal Investigator in a collaborative, seed-funded project on antibiotic use and vaccine-trial effects in Ghana, and as a researcher in a scoping study for implementation research on self-care interventions and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Bangladesh, the Philippines, Morocco and Zambia.