Ugo F. Edu is Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at University of California, Los Angeles. She is a medical anthropologist working at the intersection of medical anthropology, public health, Black feminism, and science, technology, and society studies (STS). Her scholarship takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the conceptualizations and enactments of health that are counterproductive to a quest for health equity as they manifest in the practices, research, and curricula of medicine, public/global health, and the sciences. She focuses on the politics of reproduction, reproductive health, body modifying techniques, and health equity in both global and national contexts. Her book project: The “Family Planned”: Racial Aesthetics, Sterilization, and Reproductive Fugitivity in Brazil, traces the influence of an economy of race, aesthetics, and sexuality on reproductive and sterilization practices of women in Brazil.