About
Dr. Deborah Nadal is a medical anthropologist specializing in human-animal-environment health (One Health), zoonotic diseases, community-based participatory research and South Asian studies. Currently, she is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Humanities of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
After her PhD research on dog-cow-macaque-human co-existence in northern India (which resulted in the award-winning book “Rabies in the Streets: Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India”), she completed a three-year Marie Skɫodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by the European Union, at the University of Glasgow (UK) and the University of Washington (USA), where she worked on dog and human rabies in western India.
At Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, she led a three-year project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research on the social perception of tick-borne diseases in Italy and Slovenia. Between 2021 and 2025, she also worked as an external consultant for the Department for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization and for the Program Division of UNICEF.