Doris Burtscher holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology and started her extensive research and fieldwork experience in 1992 in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Since 2001, she has worked as a medical anthropologist with MSF and has undertaken fieldwork within MSF and other NGOs in Mauritania, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Niger, Eswatini, Lebanon, India, Chad, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Haiti, Senegal and Albania.

Doris currently works as a medical anthropology referent in the MSF Vienna Evaluation Unit, Austria, providing technical support to different projects and contexts in the MSF movement.

Since 2005, she has been a lecturer at the Medical University of Vienna Center for Public Health department and gives lessons on medical anthropology and global health as well as qualitative methodologies in different courses inside and outside MSF. Her main fields of interest include female sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, TB and MDR-TB, antibiotic use and resistance, malnutrition, mental health, health-seeking behaviour, SGBV and neglected disease.