Gayathri Embuldeniya is an anthropologist who conducts qualitative research at the HSPN. She worked on the qualitative evaluation of the Integrated Funding Models (IFMs), and is currently working on the evaluation of the Ontario Health Teams. While her interests include integrated health care models and patient engagement in healthcare and research, she is broadly interested in understanding how ideas and structures emerge and change, and how and why people and systems work the way they do. She received her PhD (Cultural Anthropology) from the University of California Santa Barbara, her MA (English Language and Literature) from the University of Oxford, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago.