I was at the LSHTM Anthropologies of African Biosciences Group from 2010 to 2013, and the Centre for History in Public Health from 2015 to 2022.
Affiliations
Department of Public Health, Environments and Society
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Centres
TB Centre
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre
Antimicrobial Resistance Centre
Teaching
I was deputy module organiser for the MSc Public Health distance learning module History in Health, and co-organizer of the initial Decolonizing Global Health - History and Legacy lecture series. I also lectured on the History and Health, Medical Anthropology and Public Health, Epidemiology and Control of Malaria modules, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Globalization, and Evaluation of Public Health Interventions modules, and on the LSHTM short course on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
Research
History and anthropology of health planning, and infectious disease control in West and West Central Africa and Southeast Asia. Focus on leprosy control in Nigeria. Funded by Wellcome Trust doctoral and fellowship grants, and by the ESRC and the Leverhulme Trust.
Research Area
Global Health
Health systems
Anthropology
History of public health
Disease and Health Conditions
Disability
Leprosy
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Tropical diseases
Tuberculosis
Infectious diseases
Vector borne diseases
Skin diseases
Country
Cameroon
Malaysia
Nigeria
Philippines
Region
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)
Least developed countries: UN classification
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
History as a partner in public health: a report of the foresight think tank on the history of pandemics
2024
World Health Organization
The political economy of 'strengthening health services': The view from WHO AFRO, 1951-c.1985.
2022
Social science & medicine (1982)
Antibiotic Arrivals in Africa: A Case Study of Yaws and Syphilis in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Uganda
2022
Medicine Anthropology Theory
Qua Iboe by motorcycle and launch: brokering public health coverage in 1960s Southeastern Nigeria.
2022
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire
The words we choose matter: recognising the importance of language in decolonising global health.
2021
The Lancet Global Health
Traces of the future: an archaeology of medical science in Africa
2016
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