Eva Soom Ammann is a social anthropologist working in health sciences. As a lecturer and senior researcher in nursing research at the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH, Department of Health, and holding a habilitation in medical anthropology at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, she conducts interdisciplinary research and teaching. Her research activities build on expertise in both basic and applied research. Her research topics focus on diversity and inequalities in health (care provision and public health), migration, ageing, end of life, and specifically on ethnographic and practice theory approaches in health research.
Eva Soom Ammann studied social anthropology, sociology and media studies in Bern and Berlin and acquired her PhD at the Institute of Social Anthropology in the field of migration research. She did her dissertation research as a member of the Graduate School Gender Studies of the Universities of Bern and Fribourg, with a focus on migration, age and gender. Since her PhD, she has worked as a research project assistant, project manager and researcher in the field of migration and public health. Her Post-Doc research focused on end of life and diversities in nursing homes in the frame of the NRP67 "End-of-Life". Currently, she holds a lectureship at the Department of Health of the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH in the Department of Nursing, where she leads the Innovation Field Psychosocial Health. Eva Soom Ammann is a founding member of PASSAGEN Forschungskreis Migration und Geschlecht and is involved in MAS Medical Anthropology Switzerland, a commission of the Swiss Anthropological Association SAA.
