Aida Hassan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate, working in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.

By background, she is an interdisciplinary social scientist working at the intersections of Global Health, International Relations and Sociology. Her PhD research at Queen Mary University of London explored liberal norms of global health governance in contemporary conflicts, focusing on the role of states, international organisations and NGOs in producing structural violence and racialised hierarchies of care through their security, humanitarian and bureaucratic practices. This research included a comparative, critical analysis of health emergencies in Syria and Yemen as case studies.

Research

• Postcolonial theory
• Critical global health
• Global health security
• Science and technology studies
• Ethics and affect in global health

Aida is currently working on a Wellcome funded project: 'Environmentally Sustainable Health Research (SHARE): from ‘tool solutionism’ to a context sensitive, just, systems-focused and reflexive approach', led by Dr Gabrielle Samuel and Dr Federica Lucivero (Ethox Centre, Oxford). This project explores the ethical, social, cultural and practical implications of green tools in health research in diverse geographical contexts.