Ethics advisor
Biography
Abril Saldaña Tejeda is a full professor of sociology at the Philosophy Department, University of Guanajuato, Mexico. She has written on women and domestic work in Mexico and the study of sexuality, motherhood and food politics.
In 2015, she was awarded a Newton Advance Fellowship by the British Academy to investigate genomics and child obesity in Mexico. In 2019, she was awarded a Small Grant in Humanities and Social Sciences (Wellcome Trust / 218699/19/Z). This was a two-year project titled ‘Global divisions of health; bioethical principles, practices and regulations on human genome editing and stem cell research in Latin America.’ As part of the project, she founded a multidisciplinary research network with 30 members (and counting). The network, ILSE Genómica LAyC (ilsegenomica.org) and through the network, she organized seminars and joint publications such as Saldaña-Tejeda, A., Aparicio, A., González-Santos, S. P., Arguedas-Ramírez, G., Cavalcanti, J. M., Shaw, M. K., & Perler, L. (2022). Policy landscapes on human genome editing: a perspective from Latin America, Trends in Biotechnology.In 2023, she was awarded a Bellagio Residency by the Rockefeller Foundation (February); a Descartes Fellowship by Utrecht University; and the Global Health and Social Medicine Fellowship at Kings College, United Kingdom.
Her most recent scholarly work deals with local histories and their intricate and mutually constitutive links to global health and bioethics.
Publications
Saldaña-Tejeda, A. (2024). Imagining social action in times of despair: Mexico. Human Organization. 83. 97-99. DOI: 10.1080/00187259.2024.2357766.
González-Santos, S. & Saldaña-Tejeda, A. (2023). “Hecho en México”: a media analysis of the first MRT baby. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. 6. DOI:10.1080/25729861.2023.2245990
Hardin, J. & Saldaña-Tejeda, A. & Gálvez, A. & Yates-Doerr, E, & Garth, Hanna & Dickinson, Maggie & Carney, Megan & Valdez, Natali. (2023). Duo-ethnographic Methods: A Feminist Take on Collaborative Research. Field Methods. 35. 409-413. DOI:10.1177/1525822X231158894.