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Medical Anthropology & STS Researcher | Digital Health, AI Governance & Participatory Research

Profile Summary

I am a medical anthropologist and interdisciplinary researcher specializing in digital health, mental health, online communities, and health technologies. My work combines medical anthropology, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and qualitative and quantitative social research to examine how people experience and engage with health, care, and technology in everyday life. I am currently completing a joint PhD between the University of Warwick and Monash University focused on lived experiences with SSRI antidepressants, digital mental health communities, and pharmaceutical care practices. Alongside my doctoral research, I work as a Research Assistant on international digital health and human rights projects involving participatory action research across multiple countries. I have experience conducting large-scale qualitative research, digital ethnography, literature reviews, thematic analysis, policy-oriented research, participatory workshops, and interdisciplinary collaboration. I have worked with qualitative datasets involving more than 300 participants across multi-country research projects and contributed to peer-reviewed publications, policy reports, and public engagement initiatives. My areas of expertise include: - Digital health and digital rights - Mental health and antidepressants - Online communities and platform cultures - Participatory action research - Qualitative analysis and coding - Digital ethnography - STS and medical anthropology - Health policy and governance I am available for research consultancy, qualitative analysis, literature reviews, report writing, participatory research design, workshop facilitation, and interdisciplinary health and technology projects.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Health Policy
• ★ Traditional/Narrative Literature Review
• ★ Systematic Literature Review
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Statistical Review
• ☆ Cultural Anthropology
• ☆ Ethnology & Ethnography
• ☆ Medical Anthropology
• ☆ Bioethics & Medical Ethics
• ☆ Social Ethics
• ☆ Phenomenology
• ☆ Cultural Studies
• ☆ Social Theory
• ☆ Medical Sociology
• ☆ Social Network Theory & Analysis
• ☆ Book Reviews
• ☆ Community Development
• ☆ Disability Studies
• ☆ SPSS
• ☆ R
• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Global Health
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Gap Analysis
• ☆ Literature Review

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Medical Writing, Non-Medical Regulatory Writing, Technical Writing, Copywriting, Audio Transcription, General Proofreading & Editing

Research User Research, Meta-Research, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Digital Strategy Consulting, Healthcare Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Research Assistant

University of Warwick

November 2024 - Present

Graduate Teaching Associate

MONASH UNIVERSITY

February 2024 - November 2024

Science Diplomacy Fellow

Embassy of Spain in China

October 2019 - August 2021

Education

Monash-Warwick Joint PhD in Interdisciplinary Methodologies

University of Warwick

September 2022 - Present

Master's Degree in Socio-Cultural Analysis of Communication and Knowledge

Complutense University of Madrid

September 2018 - September 2019

Bachelor's Degree in Sociology

Complutense University of Madrid

2014 - 2018

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Raymond Hyma, Javier García Martínez (2026). Still in the Thick of it: A Duoethnographic Account Navigating and Challenging the Institutional PhD Through Participatory and Action-Oriented Research . Action Research.

Javier García-Martínez (2025). SSRI-Human Entanglements: On Becoming with Antidepressants . Archivio antropologico mediterraneo.

Javier García-Martínez (2021). Defining Depression: Endogenous Materialities, Exogenous Immaterialities . Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat.

Javier García-Martínez(2021). Definiendo la depresión: materialidades endógenas, inmaterialidades exógenas . Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat. 135. (1). Institucio Alfons el Magnanim