Kara Zamora

Kara Zamora is a PhD Candidate in the joint Medical Anthropology PhD program at UCSF and UC Berkeley. Prior to her entry into the PhD program and throughout her PhD program, she has also worked as a qualitative Health Services Researcher at UC San Francisco and the San Francisco VA on regional and national studies that have focused on: Chronic pain care in safety net healthcare setting;  rural access to mental health treatment; and more recently on functional status decline among older adults, and music in daily caregiving among people living with dementia. Her PhD research is focused on exploring Filipino-American US military veterans’ experiences of chronic pain care between the Philippines and the US. Her primary areas of interests as it relates to her dissertation research include: postcolonial theory; American empire; colonial medicine; critical global health; chronic pain; disability in the Global South; debility; Graphic Medicine; photo ethnography; PhotoVoice; and visual research methods in anthropology.