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 advances in how the choice of data collection method (e.g., face-to-face or online, individual interview versus focus group) influences data quality (Gravlee et al. 2018; Wutich et al. 2010)

 research strategies and techniques for cross-cultural, ethnographic research (Wutich and Brewis 2019)

 innovative methods for studying water insecurity across cultural, geographic, and demographic contexts (Wutich et al. 2017; Wutich et al. 2019)

 models for engaging undergraduate students in large-scale, cross-cultural research (Ruth et al. 2019)

 advancing popular but still largely untested theories (e.g., syndemics) with innovative methods (Brewis et al. 2020; Mendenhall and Singer 2020; Tomori et al. 2018)

This list, though incomplete, hints at how central methodological developments are to medical anthropology’s theoretical and practical significance. No single method defines us, and no method is exclusively ours. But the unifying commitment to ethnography as strategy – encompassing many techniques (Bernard 2018, p. 2) – is distinctive of the field. It’s what drives our relevance to the communities and collaborators with whom we work.