Costanza Torre

Costanza Torre is a Research Fellow at the Anthropology and Sociology Department, in the Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA) at SOAS, University of London. She holds degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Turin, and a PhD in International Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her doctoral thesis ethnographically explored South Sudanese refugees’ experiences mental health humanitarian and food insecurity in the refugee settlement of Palabek, northern Uganda. Her work has explored the moral and material economies that emerge around public health interventions, the entanglements between medical technologies and global migration regimes, and how food insecurity, chronic poverty, and structural inequalities shape experiences of distress and care. Her findings have informed the work of international organisations including the World Health Organization (WHO), UNHCR, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)