Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
My book, "The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920," is a history of African politics and colonial public health, focusing on sleeping sickness at Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika.
A second project examines the emergence of the “neglected tropical diseases” (NTDs) as an operative and imaginative category in global health, with specific reference to the experiences of African patients and communities, as well as transnational researchers, in the past 40 years.
Compare the flu pandemic of 1918 and COVID-19 with caution – the past is not a prediction
Jun 05, 2020 10:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
People have turned to historical experience with influenza pandemics to try to make sense of COVID-19, and for good reason. Influenza and coronavirus share basic similarities in the way theyre transmitted via...
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