New CORTH member - Isabele Villwock Bachtold
By: Martin Wingfield
Last updated: Monday, 23 July 2018
Isabele Villwock Bachtold is a Master candidate in Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies. Her current research explores the knowledge-making and narratives about Zika Congenital Syndrome among social protection policymakers and how this affects gender roles and impose the social burden of the syndrome on mother and female caretakers.
She holds a Master degree in Social Anthropology, a BA in Social Sciences and a BA in International Relations, all at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. She is a civil servant at the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development, with experience in implementation and qualitative monitoring of social policies in diverse areas (e.g., early childhood, traditional populations and rural development).