Ann Kelly PhD
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I graduated from Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 2002 with a major in Social Anthropology and certificates in Creative Writing and European Cultural Studies. I received a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge in 2006 with the support of a Gates Cambridge Scholarship and a grant from the Overseas Research Trust. My doctoral research followed the design of a pragmatic clinical trial investigating screening for osteoporosis from funding application to formalized protocol. In that project I attempted to situate the notion of public good advanced by the NHS and to articulate how that cultural framing inflects techniques of scientific aggregation. Since joining the school, I have extended this interest in the correlation between good research and the goods of research into African contexts. Funded by the Wellcome Trust Bioethics Research Fellowship, I have compared the experiences of local fieldworkers employed by international research projects in The Gambia and in Tanzania.
Affiliation
Teaching
Co-organiser Medical Anthropology and Public Health Module
Research
I work on the ethics, epistemology and sociality of international public health interventions. My fieldwork in Tanzania and The Gambia explores the production of scientific facts with special attention to the built-environments, material artefacts and practical labours of experimentation. A second focus is on malaria control interventions, how rural and urban spaces are configured to manage the flow of human, parasite and mosquito populations. I am currently beginning two projects: the first explores the forms of mobilities among municipal health-workers in African cities; the second excavates the political and material trajectory of three medical research stations in formerly French, German and British colonies in Africa to describe how the memory of medical research is woven into the social texture everyday life.
Research areas
- Ethics
- Ethnography
- Globalisation
- Health inequalities
- Health policy
- Public health
Disciplines
- Anthropology
- History
- Sociology
Disease and Health Conditions
- Malaria
- Zoonotic disease
Regions
- Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Countries
- Benin
- Gambia, The
- Tanzania
- United Kingdom
Other interests
- Africa
- science studies
- sub-saharan africa
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Selected publications
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Pragmatic Fact-Making: Contracts and Contexts in the UK and The Gambia
Kelly, A
in 'Medical Proofs, Social experiments: Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts' Catherine Will and Tiago Moreira(In Press) Oxfod: Ashgate
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Will He Be There?: Mediating malaria, immobilizing science.
Kelly, A.H. ;
J Cult Econ, 2011; 4(1):65-79
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Neglected malarias: The frontlines and back alleys of global health
Kelly, A.H.; Beisel, U.
Biosocieties, 2011; 6(1):71-87
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The Value of Transnational Medical Research.
Kelly, A; Geissler PW
Journal of Cultural Economy, 2011; 4(1):3-10
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'Like sugar and honey': The embedded ethics of a larval control project in The Gambia.
Kelly, A.H.; Ameh, D.; Majambere, S.; Lindsay, S.; Pinder, M.;
Soc Sci Med, 2010;
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'He is now like a brother, I can even give him some blood' - Relational ethics and material exchanges in a malaria vaccine 'trial community' in The Gambia.
Geissler, P.W.; Kelly, A.; Imoukhuede, B.; Pool, R.;
Soc Sci Med, 2008; 67(5):696-707
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Impact of Larviciding on Malaria in the Gambia
Pinder, M.; Majambere, S.; Ameh, D.; Jeffries, D.; Jawara, M.; Kelly, A.; Green, C.; Hutchinson, R.; Conway, D.; Lindsay, S.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2008; 79(6):793
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Pragmatic Evidence and the Politics of Everyday Practice
Kelly, A.
in 'Questions of evidence - ethnography and anthropological forms of knowledge' Lau, T; High, C; Chau,L (2008) Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Cambridge)
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