Branwyn is a medical anthropologist working on health, healing, and the body in Senegal. While at the Rachel Carson Center, she had recently completed her book manuscript Lines of Sight: Development Decolonisation and the Image World of Senegalese Hygiene, an account of urban environmental politics and hygienic pedagogies grounded in historical analysis, ethnographic engagement, and visual theory. Her research at the time of the fellowship focused on the emergence of chronic diseases in Dakar. Branwyn drew upon ethnographic research in urban Senegalese households to understand how diseases associated with the overconsumption of fat, salt, and sugar emerge in a Sahelian city strongly associated with hunger, scarcity, and rampant food insecurity.

Before coming to the RCC, Branwyn was a postdoctoral fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Cambridge.