The Havey Institute for Global Health Seminar Series is held the first Wednesday of each month, September through July, and features the research and ideas of outstanding global health leaders at Feinberg, the larger Northwestern community, and beyond.
Our speaker for June is:
Sokhieng Au, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Global Health Studies Program
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Science in Human Culture Program
Northwestern University
"Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Long Arc of History: Infectious Disease Control and Global Health Inequity"
Speaker biography:
Sokhieng Au is a medical historian and public health practitioner focused on health and illness in the Global South. Her research examines medicine and disease broadly in both contemporary and historical perspectives, with particular focus on (cultural, scientific, technical) exchanges / interventions and global inequities in health. She is an area specialist in Southeast Asia and Central Africa. She worked with Doctors Without Borders for several years and has researched and taught in universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her first monograph was a study of French colonial medicine in Cambodia. Her two most recent publications examined Belgian colonial medicine in the Congo and present-day antibiotics overuse in Afghanistan. She has a Ph.D. in history of science from UC Berkeley and an MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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