H. Atikasari

Hanum Atikasari is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ERC‑funded project WELL-ASIA: The Pursuit of Wellness in Southeast Asia: New Encounters and Inequalities in an Emerging Industry (PI: Dr. Megha Amrith). She is a medical anthropologist whose work focuses on care, health, well‑being, advanced illnesses, ethics, and narrative studies. Her research experience is primarily based in Indonesia, focusing on HIV, cancer, palliative care, and end‑of‑life care.

In her postdoctoral research, she will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia, examining the encounters and tensions that emerge within the wellness industry. She is particularly interested in exploring wellness production, spirituality, and therapeutic trajectories.

Before joining FASoS, she was a PhD researcher on the ERC project Globalizing Palliative Care Project (PI: by Dr. Annemarie Samuels) at Leiden University, where she studied the end‑of‑life care trajectories of women with advanced cancer and explored palliative care provision in Jakarta, Indonesia. She was also a visiting PhD fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (2024), and at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, Universitas Indonesia (2022-2023). Previously, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, and with various non‑profit organizations in Indonesia, Australia, and Nepal, primarily focusing on reproductive health and nutrition.