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Professor Anne Pollock

Professor Anne Pollock

  • Academics

Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

Research subject areas

  • Biomedical and life sciences
  • Public health
  • Policy and society

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Biography

Anne Pollock is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London.

Prior to joining King's, Anne spent a decade on the faculty of Georgia Tech. She holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) and Brandeis University (BA).

She is the author of Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference (Duke 2012), and Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery (Chicago forthcoming). She is an Associate Editor of BioSocieties, and serves on the editorial boards of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience and Science, Technology and Human Values.

Research

Anne's training is in the interdisciplinary field of science, technology, and society.  Her research focuses on biomedicine and culture, theories of race and gender, and ways in which science and medicine are mobilised in social justice projects.

Further details

See Anne's research profile