Alexandra Brewis, Ph.D

Anthropologist and Regent’s and President’s Professor at Arizona State University

Alexandra Brewis, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and Regent's and President's Professor at Arizona State University whose work focuses on how social, cultural, and environmental forces shape human health. She is the Founding Director of ASU's Center for Global Health with more than three decades of research on obesity and weight stigma, as well as food and water insecurity, with her fieldwork spanning places as diverse as Samoa, Ethiopia, Haiti, Zambia, and the U.S. Southwest. Brewis has authored eight books and more than 250 articles, including the award‑winning Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health. Her contributions have been honored with major distinctions such as election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and lifetime achievement awards from the American Anthropological Association and the Human Biology Association. Currently, she is coordinating a multi-country social science effort – with teams in Brazil, Japan, Czech Republic, US, Australia, UK, Denmark, and to understand how people relate to GLP-1s in their everyday lives.