I went back to study, and then a funny thing happened...
A team of our students are testing their knowledge on #UniversityChallenge, in an episode you can watch on 31 July.
The team pit their wits against Birkbeck, University of London. Good luck to the team 🤞 bit.ly/news-bbcunichallenge
On Tuesday next, 28th Feb, it's 150 years since GA Hansen wrote in his lab journal he had observed rod shaped organisms - the leprosy bacillus - in tissue samples from a patient. Uni of Bergen is hosting a live webcast at 12:00 UTC - register here: hansen2023.org/webcast/
Speakers include global health diplomats and politicians, patients and activists, legal and medical experts, archivists and historians - all details on the website. Also check out the secret museum tour at hansen2023.org/360-2/ which works really well on a phone.
That was such a great production @magnushimself - congratulations! Will it be available for later viewing?
Photos shared from the Promise of #multispeciesjustice exhibition at #ESOCITE4S22 - nice to see my Feasting prints in conversation with other pieces. [accompanying video at vimeo.com/774773092/980fd73b… (Spanish captions) or vimeo.com/777825952/886ecebc… (English)]
An account of WHO African Regional Office capacity and approach to 'health service strengthening', 1950s through mid 1980s, by Martin Gorsky and me, free to read in pre-proof at doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.… - thanks Ruth Prince, Vicky Muinde, and @janinakehr SSM special issue editors
Global health looks very different when the material dimensions of operational difficulties and colonial legacies are insistently to the fore. As do distinctions between horizontal and vertical interventions. We do some of the maths and follow some of the stories.
It was a good last article to be involved in, and a pleasure to work with Martin @LSHTMhistory . I'm in London today for his inaugural lecture (which is also webcast at lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/event… ) - congratulations!
This report is a testament to @Lili_Assaba and her unswerving attention to painful details buried in archives at LSHTM. As a colonial institution, LSHTM encouraged and rewarded extractive logics - careers and the School were built on colonial accumulation researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/i…
This makes me happy. Harcourt Whyte's music in print and part of Prof. Achinivu's lifelong project coming to fruition. Kudos to all involved! #histmed #Leprosy #medhums sasakawaleprosyinitiative.or…
My latest (and possibly last): a history of how Nigerian health workers built services, autonomy, and careers in the early 1960s, in spite of scant resources and in the face of colonial retrenchment (but NOT a story of colonial ructions and fantasies)
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So this article is a sort of a companion piece to the radio documentary on Ikoli Harcourt Whyte, where another aspect of Elder Onoh's story - and his voice - can be heard (thanks again to @JCKristensen1 for commissioning) - mixcloud.com/Resonance/modul…
My last academic contract finishes soon. Relief. After 5 years doctoral and 17 years fixed term work on various big projects, not getting my ideas off the ground with depts/funders, I've lost the appetite. I still support #UCUstrikes though! This work should be better.