Medical anthropology PhD (UCSF/UCB): Research Scientist @PHIdotorg | Lecturer @UCBerkeley #finance #pharma #refugees #cannabis #healthequity
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Joined April 2014
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My new article is out @socscimed. In this analysis of #financialization in US #biopharma, I show how "Our options for saving lives have been overdetermined by finance capitalism." sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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America’s most celebrated global health program, credited with saving 25 million lives, is on life support amid the Trump administration’s mass foreign aid cuts. politico.com/news/2025/03/23…
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Judgment is set for 30th January 2025. 👏We commend the team for their excellent submission today and look forward to a positive outcome. Together, we continue to push for equitable access to treatment. #EndARVStockoutKe @katibainstitute @ahfkenya @ahfinstitute @NEPHAKKENYA @MandelaTb @TBChampions_ke @ValNjogu @MalecheAllan @emilynyiva @KevinWalumbe @samkyalo7 @_Namulanda @melindalorenda
I get to introduce 100+ unsuspecting Berkeley undergrads to Foucault’s Uses of Pleasure today. I’m a little giddy, remembering when Nancy Scheper-Hughes took me on this whirlwind tour when I was in their seats, not so long ago.
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10/ There is no plan from the company to sell the vaccine at discounted prices in Africa and no plan for it to be produced in Africa . The hope is that donor organisations will donate it.
This is not good enough.
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Today we launch new multilingual HIV PrEP info booklets through our @TeamPrepster programme.
The booklets are produced through a unique collaboration with @LondonMet_TI
Find out more ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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A group of 9-12 year old kids from a community centre in Cork met up with kids living in refugee accommodation nearby.
They made this track, & it’s gone viral; 📺 watch, & see why.
🔉 Sound up for💥The Spark, by the Kabin Crew & the Lisdoonvarna Crew 🇮🇪!
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For all my queer colleagues and friends coming to the 4S/EASST conference in Amsterdam this summer, sign up here for the Queer STS Meetup! @4sWeb @STSeasst @STHV_journal @catalyst_sts @EastsJournal @eSTSjournal @TapuyaLASTS #STS
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Stage 2 of Israel’s genocidal war is emerging. Mass graves are being discovered. Torture of abducted Palestinian hostages thrown in Israeli prisons and reports of selected human organ extractions from fresh Palestinian corpses in Gaza. Intelligent agencies report all this in their morning briefings to President Biden. Still he sticks to his master, Netanyahu, and makes the American taxpayer pay $14 billion more for Netanyahu’s slaughter of Palestinian children, women and male civilians.
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WATCH: I just spoke to UT students protesting for peace in Gaza.
"We must continue raising our voices, because no matter what Greg Abbott says, our movement is rooted in love."
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This happened to Economics Professor Caroline Fohin. Anybody in @AEAInformation @IAFFE
@EEJ_easternecon @urpe and other associations going to say something about this? #EconTwitter
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These professors are doing their jobs. Our job is to protect are students and help them gain the capacities to participate in and build better futures. Absolute solidarity with all students and professors in the US facing the full might of a violent police state. Free Palestine.
It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor @CarolineFohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, "What are you doing?" That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.
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A militarized, black-hooded police officer dragging away the Chair of this university's Philosophy Department is like a scene from a dystopian movie about fascism. But it is real.
Do listen to the audio. The calm and the fear in her voice...
WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.
I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.
This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. @ATLNewsFirst
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Professor Susan Bernofsky from Columbia university:
“I do feel that the students are highly critical of Israeli politics, and I do not believe that is inherently antisemitic at all. And I do not feel threatened as a Jewish faculty member in any way by what's happening on campus.”
Intimate economics in the shadow of late stage capitalism looks like what? #intimacy #financialization #innovation
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You are working harder but earning less. Yes, you are mad.
'For the first time since 2008, global household wealth in US dollars terms decreased...second-largest reduction since 2000' #economics
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SF’s #Equity program (a leader in equity licensing), launched in 18’ to support marginalized communities affected by #WarOnDrugs, has faced challenges. While 100s qualified, only a few dz have #cannabis businesses due to lack of $. More funds needed! @KQED bit.ly/4b2xOnV
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We're launching the new website for my research group together with a new name! @UCSF @UCSFDHM @ihps @UCSFMedicine @CSI_KCL resethealthresearch.org/