I am an academic researcher working at the intersection of history, politics, and the political economy of international and global health. My work engages with questions of health sovereignty, access to medicines, alternative pharmaceutical R&D and production, product development partnerships, and the dynamics of South-South collaboration.

I am currently based at the Humanitarian and Crisis Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester, contributing to the Wellcome Trust-funded project Developing Humanitarian Medicine: from Alma-Ata to Bio-tech, a History of Norms, Knowledge Production and Care (1978-2020). I am also a member of the PharmaGHaSTS Research Network: Critical Social Science of Pharmaceuticals at the Intersection of Global Health and Science, Technology, and Society, co-sponsored by Université Paris-Cité and King’s College London. Under the DHM project, my research traces the global access to medicines movement from the 1980s to the present, with a focus on alternative drug development models, particularly the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) that challenge market-driven pharmaceutical logic and reorient innovation towards public health needs. In addition, as a supporter of the World Health Organization (WHO)’ s Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs), I am centrally involved in researching the local origins and development of emergency medical teams in the Asia-Pacific region and Africa, examining how communities, health systems, and regional actors have built local capacity for emergency medical response, and how these grassroots and regional efforts have informed and shaped the broader global EMTs framework.

Before joining the HCRI, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (WCCEH) and Department History at the University of Exeter, working on the Wellcome Trust funded project Connecting Three Worlds: Socialism, Medicine and Global Health After World War II (C3W) led by Dora Vargha, Sarah Marks, and Edna Suarez-Diaz. As part of the C3W project, I am currently working on “Solidarity Medicine: Socialism and Local Roots of Primary Health Care in China, India, and Tanzania. It studies how socialism, with its diverse interpretations and applications, has shaped the early practices of Primary Health Care in China, India and Tanzania, which ultimately influenced the global health agenda setting. Departing from the narrative of how the ideas from the developed North influenced the less developed South, this project takes China, India, and Tanzania as sites for different ideas to display, debate, and develop under their certain social, political, economic, historical, and cultural contexts.