Medical anthropologist and author; explores health systems, pharma culture, and public‑health policy.
I always feel weird assigning things I'm in. It feels like a weird flex, even when it's actually a good teaching resource. Today my global health class is talking about "the fevers", colonialism, and the beginnings of global health. So I assigned a documentary I'm in about influenza and global surveillance networks along with a piece I wrote on the beginnings of microbiology in British Hong Kong in the late 1800s. Discussion is always more difficult when it's my work under the microscope.
For my book Allergic, I went to Cincinnati Children's Hospital and talked to asthma experts that vehemently argued otherwise...with decades of data behind them. Young (and old) lungs especially need the cleanest air we can manage. This is one of the...