In my project I explore precarious employment conditions and how they influence health inequalities. I currently focus on informal employment which is a particularly precarious situation where workers lack an employment contract and are not protected by labor regulations. Informal workers often do not have access to important social protection programs such as unemployment benefits or parental leave, leaving them more vulnerable than other workers when they become sick or have children. This exacerbates the negative health effects already created by precarious employment.

Precarious employment conditions have been established to be associated with a broad range of psychosocial and physical health outcomes, but while more than half of the global working population works informally, we still know very little about the health consequences specifically linked to informal employment. Even less is known about the health of female workers and their children even though they are often viewed as the most vulnerable in the informal economy. Therefore, in this project I aim to better understand informal employment as a social determinant of health, to identify health inequalities of female informal workers and their children, and to explore how access to social protection policies affects health inequalities.

I have a bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology and a master's degree in International Relations from Stockholm University.

Research interests: informal employment, precarious employment, labor markets, social protection, health inequalities, women’s health, children’s health