Ankita Reddy is an MD/PhD trainee and artist interested in the multiple visual and digital cultures in healthcare. Her dissertation examines how technologies and infrastructures of human and computer vision, including A.I. modalities, mediate the ways in which people see and act upon the body, health, and social difference. Ankita’s work engages collaborative methods between healthcare workers, computer scientists, and patients to imagine a more equitable and socially-informed healthcare technology landscape.

At MIT, Ankita’s helped to develop low-cost rapid diagnostics of mosquito-borne diseases, combining medical engineering work with ethnographic fieldwork in Latin America and South India. As a visual artist and dancer, she uses video, photo, and movement to understand how images and their algorithmic interpretations shape people’s affective engagement with the medical system. She has also done film and photo work with communities to investigate issues such as skin color bias and visual professionalism in medicine.

Ankita’s work has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the U.S. Dept. of Education, Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA), the Center for Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration (CERI), and the Center for Experimental Ethnography (CEE). She is also a Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellow at the UPenn Netter Center.