Meredith Blaise is a Master’s student in Medical and Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Toronto, where she is completing her thesis in collaboration with the lab. Prior to her graduate studies, she completed an HBSc in Global Health and Sociocultural/Linguistic Anthropology with a focus in Medical Anthropology, also at the University of Toronto. Alongside her graduate research, she works as a Research Analyst at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, investigating the possibilities and limitations of anti-racism education within academic hospitals through perspectives in health professions education and critical medical anthropology.

Meredith’s research interests concern the interface between science, technology, and sociality, applying critical race and disability frameworks to examine how bias may emerge within biomedical epistemology, research methodologies, and clinical and educational practice; this includes prior undergraduate research on the political economy of MRI technologies and their downstream implications in racialized health disparity.

At KCNI, Meredith contributes to ongoing inquiries into epistemic injustice through a computational ethnographic analysis of depictions of violence in clinical documentation.