Emily Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist, Guggenheim Fellow, and professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has published widely at the boundaries of anthropology, psychology, medicine, and public health, and is a contributor to various publications, including Scientific American, Psychology Today, and Vox. Her books include Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV (2019); Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (2022); and Invisible Illness: A History: From Hysteria to Long Covid (2026)