Erica Briones Vozmediano
A humanist by training, her paths took her from gender studies to sociology and from there to public health. She has taught this subject in health sciences degrees such as nursing or nutrition. Multidisciplinarity is inherent to her person and this is also how she understands research and teaching. In her study, she tries to approach women's health from as human a perspective as possible, approaching their experiences in the first person. The qualitative methodology allows her to interview women with fibromyalgia, women with multiple chemical sensitivity, women who have suffered gender violence, women affected by various axes of oppression such as capitalism and migration, which also cause pain; to learn from their experience and needs, in an attempt to give them visibility and a voice in the scientific community. Among the publications she has made, the following stand out:
Briones-Vozmediano E, Öhman A, Goicolea I, Vives-Cases C. "The complaining women": health professionals' perceptions on patients with fibromyalgia in Spain. Disabil Rehabil. 2018 Jul;40(14):1679-1685. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2017.1306759. Epub 2017 Apr 7. / Briones-Vozmediano E. The social construction of fibromyalgia as a health problem from the perspective of policies, professionals, and patients. Glob Health Action. 2017;10(1):1275191Briones-Vozmediano E, Vives-Cases C, Goicolea I. "I'm not the woman I was": Women's perceptions of the effects of fibromyalgia on private life. Health Care Women Int. 2016 Aug;37(8):836-54 / Briones-Vozmediano E, Ronda-Pérez E, Vives-Cases C. Perceptions of patients with fibromyalgia on the impact of the disease in the workplace. Aten Primaria. 2015 Apr;47(4):205-12 / Briones-Vozmediano E, Vives-Cases C, Ronda-Pérez E, Gil-González D. Patients' and professionals' views on managing fibromyalgia. Pain Res Manag. 2013 Jan-Feb;18(1):19-24. / Briones-Vozmediano E, Espinar-Ruiz E. How do women suffering from multiple chemical sensitivity experience the medical encounter? a qualitative study in Spain. Disabil Rehabil. 2019 Aug 13:1-11 / Briones Vozmediano E, Agudelo Suárez AA, López Jacob MJ, Vives Cases C, Ballester Laguna F, Ronda Pérez E. Perceptions of immigrant domestic workers on the effects of regulation of the sector in Spain. Gac Sanit. 2014 Mar-Apr;28(2):109-15. doi: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2013.06.011. Epub 2013 Aug 5. / Briones-Vozmediano E, Rivas-Quarneti N, Gea-Sánchez M, Bover-Bover A, Carbonero MA, Gastaldo D. The Health Consequences of Neocolonialism for Latin American Immigrant Women Working as Caregivers in Spain: A Multisite Qualitative Analysis. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Nov 9;17(21):8278.