Murilo Dorión is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology. He holds an undergraduate degree in sociology and a certificate in statistics and data science from Yale University. Originally from Brazil, Murilo’s work focuses on the social processes that shape individuals' health epistemology and their relationship with vaccination in the context of Brazilian favelas. During his time at the Yale School of Public Health, he worked with the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Brazilian Ministry of Health) to understand how social determinants of health, gendered performance, and territorial dynamics were shaping the COVID-19 vaccination rollout and acceptance in a favela in Salvador, Brazil. Through his mixed methods field research, Murilo explores the concept of vaccination-as-performance, and how the act of receiving or resisting healthcare serves gendered goals and can be used to build social identity. He is also interested in the ways in which the disruption of social capital through urban resettlement can hinder established healing systems and affect health outcomes. His work seeks to inform and build policy that is grounded in strong causal evidence as well as social theory and ethnographic insights, which come together through iterative mixed-methods research. He is also interested in the sociology of knowledge, community-based approaches to research, and Brazil-China comparative social and policy analysis.