Raffaele Ippolito

Raffaele is a multi-disciplinary researcher with a background in anthropology, geography, and global health. As a Research Director at NatCen International, he furthers the organization's environmental research and leads a new 'Digital Societies' agenda to understand the impact of emerging technologies on global health, climate change, and migration.

Before joining NatCen, Raffaele worked in international development with the United Nations University, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, focusing on community engagement in environmental health and digital interventions. His doctoral research combined photography and participatory methods to examine illness and aspirations to justice in marginalised communities affected by severe industrial pollution in Italy and Taiwan. His work has been published in edited volumes and academic journals including Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Social Science & Medicine, and Global Public Health.

Raffaele holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, an MSc from Taipei Medical University, and a BA from SOAS University of London.