Academic position: Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies
Department: Science & Technology Studies
Email: n.tousignant@ucl.ac.uk
Website: Dr Noémi Tousignant
Biography:
Dr Tousignant is a historian and ethnographer of health and science in West Africa, particularly Senegal. Dr Tousignant joined the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê's Science and Technology Studies Department in 2018 as a Wellcome Trust University Award holder. Her research focuses on the intersections of techno-science and inequalities in health and her current project is about West African liver cancer as both a locus of global techno-scientific progress and as a persistent cause of local suffering and death.Â
Research Projects:
- History and ethnography of West African liver cancer
- Ethnography of epidemic legacies in East and West Africa
- Global history of measles in the vaccination age, West African case studies
- History of the expanded programme on immunization in East and West Africa
Teaching:
- HPSC0002 Disease in History (UG)
- HPSCXXXX Health, Difference and Inequality (PG)