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Annals of Science, Dec 9, 2021
Social History of Medicine
Summary This article examines how malaria control in Africa became a neoliberal enterprise that p... more Summary This article examines how malaria control in Africa became a neoliberal enterprise that privileged market mechanisms as an ideal way to disseminate health interventions. It does so by tracking efforts to sell insecticide-treated nets on the continent as these tools transformed from cheap stopgap measures intended for primary health care programmes in the early 1980s to a major target of global health aid by the 2000s. Even though experience showed that selling insecticide-treated nets to African populations did not lead to high levels of uptake, malaria programme leaders continued to tinker with market mechanisms to scale up the intervention in line with the interests of prominent donors. Narrating this history as it unfolded across different African countries, this paper shows that the neoliberalisation of malaria control was a contingent and fragmented process that depended as much on local experiences with particular health technologies as it did on high-level policy-making.
Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) have become a main pillar of global malaria control in the tw... more Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) have become a main pillar of global malaria control in the twenty-first century, distributed by the millions annually across Africa and the global South. Understood as ‘evidence-based,’ biomedical tools and one of the most cost-effective global health interventions, ITNs are a main target for health and development aid. This dissertation tracks the history of ITNs since 1980 to see how and why the technology became the centerpiece of malaria control efforts in Africa. Doing so, it reveals how conditions of resource scarcity and the politics of structural adjustment shaped the construction of ITNs as biomedical objects, the translation of experimental findings into evidence-based malaria control policy, and the implementation of evidence-based policy in practice. The identity of ITNs as biomedical tools was by no means obvious or pre-determined, nor did that identity alone lead to the tool’s widespread adoption as an evidence-based intervention for...
European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health
Anthropological Quarterly, 2018
Social History of Medicine, 2018
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2014
Social History of Medicine, 2017
Social History of Medicine, 2023
This article examines how malaria control in Africa became a neoliberal enterprise that privilege... more This article examines how malaria control in Africa became a neoliberal enterprise that privileged market mechanisms as an ideal way to disseminate health interventions. It does so by tracking efforts to sell insecticide-treated nets on the continent as these tools transformed from cheap stopgap measures intended for primary health care programmes in the early 1980s to a major target of global health aid by the 2000s. Even though experience showed that selling insecticide-treated nets to African populations did not lead to high levels of uptake, malaria programme leaders continued to tinker with market mechanisms to scale up the intervention in line with the interests of prominent donors. Narrating this history as it unfolded across different African countries, this paper shows that the neoliberalisation of malaria control was a contingent and fragmented process that depended as much on local experiences with particular health technologies as it did on high-level policy-making.
Social History of Medicine, 2017
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Report, 2019
In 2017-18, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security conducted a multiphase research project ... more In 2017-18, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security conducted a multiphase research project to help inform the development of a strategic approach for communicating about global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRs). In brief, we define a GCBR as a biological development that could adversely affect the human species as a whole or radically change the course of human civilization—for instance, a severe pandemic involving a naturally occurring or deliberately engineered pathogen. GCBRs are an emerging concern among a discrete set of scientists and organizations located principally in Europe and the United States. To conceive and implement activities necessary to prevent or respond to biological threats of a global scale will require effective communication of the issue’s importance—internationally—to a range of people with knowledge, influence, and control of resources.
First, we sought to elicit the attitudes and assumptions that influential individuals in science, policy, and practice communities now hold regarding GCBRs. Knowing major ideas in common, diverging points of view, and the rationale behind them can enable issue advocates to define GCBR in meaningful terms and to spur and strengthen commitment to risk reduction.
Second, we analyzed other times in history when it became necessary to alert policymakers, practitioners, and the public to the possibility of a globally catastrophic, potentially existential threat, in order to understand how others have communicated about such dire problems without shutting down the conversation and with successful engagement of public attention and action. Following these analyses, the Center developed a set of considerations and suggestions for individuals and institutions interested in championing the issue of GCBRs more effectively.
Book Reviews by Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2018
Journal of the History of Biology, 2018
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Talks by Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Perennial Problems: Histories of Health and Environment across Borders workshop, 2019
Defining the Neglected Tropical Diseases: Research, Development, and Global Health Equity, 1970-present Worskshop, 2019
Annals of Science, Dec 9, 2021
Social History of Medicine
Summary This article examines how malaria control in Africa became a neoliberal enterprise that p... more Summary This article examines how malaria control in Africa became a neoliberal enterprise that privileged market mechanisms as an ideal way to disseminate health interventions. It does so by tracking efforts to sell insecticide-treated nets on the continent as these tools transformed from cheap stopgap measures intended for primary health care programmes in the early 1980s to a major target of global health aid by the 2000s. Even though experience showed that selling insecticide-treated nets to African populations did not lead to high levels of uptake, malaria programme leaders continued to tinker with market mechanisms to scale up the intervention in line with the interests of prominent donors. Narrating this history as it unfolded across different African countries, this paper shows that the neoliberalisation of malaria control was a contingent and fragmented process that depended as much on local experiences with particular health technologies as it did on high-level policy-making.
Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) have become a main pillar of global malaria control in the tw... more Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) have become a main pillar of global malaria control in the twenty-first century, distributed by the millions annually across Africa and the global South. Understood as ‘evidence-based,’ biomedical tools and one of the most cost-effective global health interventions, ITNs are a main target for health and development aid. This dissertation tracks the history of ITNs since 1980 to see how and why the technology became the centerpiece of malaria control efforts in Africa. Doing so, it reveals how conditions of resource scarcity and the politics of structural adjustment shaped the construction of ITNs as biomedical objects, the translation of experimental findings into evidence-based malaria control policy, and the implementation of evidence-based policy in practice. The identity of ITNs as biomedical tools was by no means obvious or pre-determined, nor did that identity alone lead to the tool’s widespread adoption as an evidence-based intervention for...
European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health
Anthropological Quarterly, 2018
Social History of Medicine, 2018
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2014
Social History of Medicine, 2017
Social History of Medicine, 2023
This article examines how malaria control in Africa became a neoliberal enterprise that privilege... more This article examines how malaria control in Africa became a neoliberal enterprise that privileged market mechanisms as an ideal way to disseminate health interventions. It does so by tracking efforts to sell insecticide-treated nets on the continent as these tools transformed from cheap stopgap measures intended for primary health care programmes in the early 1980s to a major target of global health aid by the 2000s. Even though experience showed that selling insecticide-treated nets to African populations did not lead to high levels of uptake, malaria programme leaders continued to tinker with market mechanisms to scale up the intervention in line with the interests of prominent donors. Narrating this history as it unfolded across different African countries, this paper shows that the neoliberalisation of malaria control was a contingent and fragmented process that depended as much on local experiences with particular health technologies as it did on high-level policy-making.
Social History of Medicine, 2017
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Report, 2019
In 2017-18, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security conducted a multiphase research project ... more In 2017-18, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security conducted a multiphase research project to help inform the development of a strategic approach for communicating about global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRs). In brief, we define a GCBR as a biological development that could adversely affect the human species as a whole or radically change the course of human civilization—for instance, a severe pandemic involving a naturally occurring or deliberately engineered pathogen. GCBRs are an emerging concern among a discrete set of scientists and organizations located principally in Europe and the United States. To conceive and implement activities necessary to prevent or respond to biological threats of a global scale will require effective communication of the issue’s importance—internationally—to a range of people with knowledge, influence, and control of resources.
First, we sought to elicit the attitudes and assumptions that influential individuals in science, policy, and practice communities now hold regarding GCBRs. Knowing major ideas in common, diverging points of view, and the rationale behind them can enable issue advocates to define GCBR in meaningful terms and to spur and strengthen commitment to risk reduction.
Second, we analyzed other times in history when it became necessary to alert policymakers, practitioners, and the public to the possibility of a globally catastrophic, potentially existential threat, in order to understand how others have communicated about such dire problems without shutting down the conversation and with successful engagement of public attention and action. Following these analyses, the Center developed a set of considerations and suggestions for individuals and institutions interested in championing the issue of GCBRs more effectively.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2018
Journal of the History of Biology, 2018
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Perennial Problems: Histories of Health and Environment across Borders workshop, 2019
Defining the Neglected Tropical Diseases: Research, Development, and Global Health Equity, 1970-present Worskshop, 2019
AAHM Annual Meeting, 2018
SHOT Annual Meeting, 2017
International Congress of History of Science and Technology, 2017
Buffett Institute Graduate Student Conference on Science, Technology, and the Politics of Knowledge in Global Affairs, 2017
SHOT Annual Meeting, 2016
AAHM Annual Meeting, 2016
Southern Capitalisms Graduate Student Conference, 2016
Dreaming of Health and Science in Africa Conference, 2015