Mirko Pasquini, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor in Medical Anthropology at the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg and affiliated researcher at the Centre for Medical Humanities at Uppsala University. His research interests combine hospital ethnography and primary care in Italy and Sweden, with a focus on health inequalities, healthcare governance, the social dynamics of attention, violence, trust and mistrust in care interactions. Mirko’s current research project, “Mistrust in practice: an ethnography of suspicion in general medical practice in the aftermath of COVID-19”, funded by the Swedish Research Council, contributes to debates about the “crisis of trust” in the healthcare sector looking at Italy in the aftermath of COVID-19. Mirko’s Ph.D. work “The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room”, was awarded the annual Westinska Prize (2021) for outstanding dissertation by the Royal Society of Humanists at Uppsala University. A revised version of the book will be published by Rutgers University Press. To promote the application of critical social science concepts within medicine, Mirko is engaged in health workers’ training in “Structural Competency” in Sweden, Denmark and Italy. He is also part of the Applied Health Club of the Applied Anthropology Network (AAN).