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Senior Fellow
Name : Alex Nading
Contact (e-mail): alex_nading@brown.edu
Institution: Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Area of expertise: Medical Anthropology
Current activities: Examining efforts of environmental and labor activists to address an epidemic of chronic kidney disease on Nicaraguan sugarcane plantations
Location: Providence, RI, USA
Area of interest: Global health, environment, social justice; political, technical, and social spaces where environmental change and epidemic disease meet
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Professor in Human Geography
Name : Steven Hinchliffe
Contact (e-mail): Stephen.Hinchliffe@exeter.ac.uk
Institution: Geography Department, University of Exeter
Area of expertise: Geography, Science and Technology Studies
Current activities: Examining social drivers for antimicrobial use in Bangladesh’s shrimp and prawn aquaculture industry
Location: Exeter, UK
Area of interest: Ethnographic engagment with material issues in ways that are informed by but also re-configure social and spatial theory
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Associate Professor in Human Geography
Name : Jamie Lorimer
Contact (e-mail): jamie.lorimer@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Institution: School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Area of expertise: Geography
Current activities: Exploring how hygiene practices are shaped by an awareness of the inevitability of microbial life in domestic spaces
Location: Oxford, UK
Area of interest: Cultural geography; geographies of science; politics of Nature and wildlife conservation; geographical questions that conjoin social and environmental sciences
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Senior Lecturer in Global Health
Name : Ann H. Kelly
Contact (e-mail): ann.kelly@kcl.ac.uk
Institution: Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London
Area of expertise: Medical Anthropology
Current activities: Examining burden and barriers related to cardiovascular health in Sierra Leone
Location: London, UK
Area of interest: Integrating public health interventions and disease control programmes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Name : Hannah Brown
Contact (e-mail): hannah.brown@durham.ac.uk
Institution: Department of Anthropology, Durham University
Area of expertise: Global Health
Current activities: Examining zoonotic diseases and epidemic management in West Africa, with a particular focus on Lassa fever and Ebola virus disease
Location: Durham, UK
Area of interest: Economies and practices of care; governance; state; nursing; hospitals; global health interventions (HIV/AIDS, viral haemorrhagic fevers); development; community-based health care; public health
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Director of the Centre de la recherche et l'enseignement sociale at the Quai Branly Museum
Name : Frédérick Keck
Contact (e-mail): keck.fred@gmail.com
Institution: Musée du Quai Branly, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Area of expertise: Anthropology
Current activities: Examining human-animal relations in the context of sanitary and ecological catastrophes, biosecurity, and risk.
Location: Paris, France
Area of interest: Biopolitics and biosecurity, food risks and sanitary crises, scientific networks, ecological catastrophes, local knowledges, conservation at museums, zoos, and natural parks.
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Epidemiology of emerging diseases Group Leader
Name : Tamara Giles-Vernick
Contact (e-mail): tamara.giles-vernick@pasteur.fr
Institution: Institut Pasteur
Area of expertise: Medical Anthropology
Current activities: Investigating infectious disease transmission and global health interventions in Africa, at the interstices of medical anthropology and ethnohistory.
Location: Paris, France
Area of interest: human-great apes and monkeys relationships, hepatitis B and vaccination, the historical emergence of HIV in central Africa; malnutrition; infantile diarrhea in the Central African Republic; historical epidemiology of malaria in west Africa; hepatitis C transmission in hospital and dental settings in Egypt; comparative history of pandemic influenza; history of global health in Africa; history of epidemiological surveillance.
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Name : Almudena Mari Sáez
Contact (e-mail): almudena.mari-saez@charite.de
Institution: Charite, Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health
Area of expertise: Anthropology, Philosophy
Current activities: Examining materialities, geographies and environments and how these factors intertwine and facilitate the transmission of Lassa virus in West Africa.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Area of interest: Knowledge production on epidemics, analysis of emergency interventions, organization and material structures of clinical trials, Lassa fever, Ebola.
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Research Scientist at the Institute of Primate Research (IPR), Nairobi, Kenya, and currently a PhD student at the Department of Anthropology, Durham University.
Name : Danson Mwangi
Contact (e-mail): danson.k.mwangi@durham.ac.uk
Institution: Durham University
Area of expertise: Medical Anthropology, Ethnohistory
Current activities: Researching zoonotic disease risk among Kenyan communities living at the borderlands of Tsavo and Chyulu National parks in Kenya.
Location: Durham, Uk
Area of interest: Health problems emanating from Human-wildlife interactions and conflict, with specific interests in ecological, political and socio-cultural determinants of pathogens’ cross-transmission, between humans and non-human primates.
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Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology
Name : Jesse Bonwitt
Contact (e-mail): jbonwitt@cdc.gov
Institution: Durham University
Area of expertise: Medicine, Public Health, Anthropology, Nursing
Current activities: Working on policy on prevention and control of zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases (rabies, Lassa fever, and Ebola virus disease) in Guinea.
Location: Durham, Uk
Area of interest: Human behaviour, human-nonhuman relations, zoonotic diseases, viral haemorrhagic fevers.
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Junior Researcher
Name : Sandul Yasobant
Contact (e-mail): dryasobant@gmail.com
Institution: Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Area of expertise: Public Health, One Health
Location: Bonn, Germany
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Clinical Assistant Professor,
Name : Brandi Janssen
Contact (e-mail): brandi-janssen@uiowa.edu
Institution: Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa
Area of expertise: Anthropology
Current activities: The Outreach Core provides coordinated education, translation and communication activities throughout the agricultural sector in the GPCAH region
Location: Iowa City, IA, USA
Area of interest: Alternative agriculture; Food systems; Environmental justice; Agricultural labor
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Head of Social Anthropology; Senior Lecturer
Name : Rebecca Marsland
Contact (e-mail): R.Marsland@ed.ac.uk
Institution: School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Edinburgh
Area of expertise: Medical Anthropology
Current activities: Examining the entry of public health discourses about malaria into discussions about local "tradition".
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Area of interest: Medical Anthropology, Tanzania, East Africa, Funerals, International development, HIV and AIDS, Witchcraft, Human-animal relationships, Bees, Veterinary Anthropology
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Researcher at AMR DARPI
Name : Rebekah Thompson
Contact (e-mail): rebekah.thompson@ed.ac.uk
Institution: School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Edinburgh
Area of expertise: Medical Anthropology
Current activities: Examining perceptions of disease amongst pig farmers, abattoir staff and pork butchers in Central Uganda.
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Area of interest: Neglected Zoonotic and Tropical Diseases, Livestock Research, Meat Eating, Pigs, Medical Anthropology, Helminths, Human-animal relationships, Veterinary Anthropology, One Health, East Africa
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Name : Séverine Thys
Contact (e-mail): sthys@itg.be
Institution: Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Area of expertise: Anthropology, Public Health
Current activities: One Health management of Rabies in Bali within a socio-ecological approach
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Area of interest: Medical Anthropology, Public Health, Veterinary Medicine
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Frankfurt, Germany
Name : Meike Wolf
Contact (e-mail): meike.wolf@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Institution: Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Area of expertise: Medical Anthropology
Current activities: Researching the mutual entrapments of human and microbial life (condensing in the concept of infection) with a focus on emergence of sociotechnical assemblages, and their pathogens (especially influenza).
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Area of interest: Medical Anthropology, human-nonhuman relationships, pandemic preparedness infrastructures, invasive species, influenza.
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Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens
Name : Kevin Bardosh
Contact (e-mail): kevinbardosh@ufl.edu
Institution: University of Florida
Area of expertise: Anthropology
Current activities: Running a community-based mosquito control initiative in Haiti to help with elimination/control of lymphatic filariasis, malaria, Zika/CHIK/dengue. Working to strengthen risk communication, community engagement and inclusion of social scientists in pandemic/epidemic preparedness and response. Researching global change and infectious disease in the Anthropocene.
Location: Gainesville, FL, USA
Area of interest: Medical anthropology, infectious disease, global health, pandemics and emerging diseases, community-based and participatory approaches, development studies, implementation science, science and technology studies, environmental anthropology, development anthropology, agrarian studies, livestock systems, behavioral science, epidemiology.
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Professor
Name : Susan L. Craddock
Contact (e-mail): craddock@umn.edu
Institution: University of Minnesota
Area of expertise: Geography, Science and Technology Studies
Current activities: Examining responses historically and currently to outbreaks of influenza, including the several controversies over global and national reactions to the recent H1N1 pandemic. Examining partnerships forming among universities, pharmaceutical companies, funding agencies, and nonprofit entities to produce new drugs and vaccines for tuberculosis.
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Area of interest: AIDS, disease, health, Tuberculosis , Public-private networks for neglected disease vaccine and drug production
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Assistant Professor
Name : Natalie Porter
Contact (e-mail): Natalie.Porter.55@nd.edu
Institution: University of Notre Dame
Area of expertise: Medical Anthropology
Current activities: Examining how pandemic disease threats are transforming scientific knowledge and public health practice worldwide. Writing a book entitled, Viral Economies: An Ethnography of Bird Flu in Vietnam, which traces several bird flu interventions from their inception in multinational policy arenas through to their implementation in poultry farming communities. Carrying out a research project that analyses scientists’ ongoing efforts to regulate experiments on highly pathogenic viruses.
Location: Notre Dame, IN, USA
Area of interest: Multispecies anthropology and the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine.
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Associate Professor
Name : Javier Lezaun
Contact (e-mail): javier.lezaun@insis.ox.ac.uk
Institution: School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at University of Oxford
Area of expertise: Science and Technology Studies
Current activities: Examining scientific and political change in the context of global health interventions, specifically those targeting mosquito-borne diseases. This work includes ethnographic investigations into the work of entomologists and the impact of urban mosquito control programmes, as well as research on the governance of transgenic and gene drive technologies for the suppression of insect vectors.
Location: Oxford, UK
Area of interest: Science and technology studies, mosquito-borne diseases, Latin America, public health policy, property rights, geoingeneering.