Debbi is a health anthropologist with expertise in medical anthropology, qualitative health research and hospital ethnography. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at The Wollotuka Institute, the University of Newcastle, and a Senior Research Fellow on the Jean Monet SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) project at the European Union Centre of Excellence at RMIT University.
She is a co-author on the most recent edition of Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action (3rd edition, 2019, Singer, Baer, Long & Pavlotski). Her research has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Health Sociology Review, and the MJA (Medical Journal of Australia), among others.