Dr David Reubi

David Reubi is Associate Professor (Reader) of Sociology and History of Global Health and Medicine.

David's work explores the politics of knowledge in contemporary biomedicine and global health. Specifically, his research explores how the social sciences writ large – from human rights law and micro-economic techniques to epidemiological surveillance and policy entrepreneurship models – have re-configured the way we understand and govern global health and biomedicine today.

His research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy, the European Research Council, the Brocher Foundation and the UK Economic Social & Research Council. Before joining King’s, David worked at the London School of Economics, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health.

Research

• The politics of global health
• The African cancer epidemic
• Epidemiological reason and health metrics
• Postcolonial science studies
• Economic thought and global health

David is currently principal investigator and working on two research projects, both funded by the Wellcome Trust:

1. The Cartographies of Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa, an archival and ethnographic study of epidemiological efforts to chart malignancy on the continent over the last 70 years.
2. The Biopolitics of the African Smoking Epidemic, an exploration of international efforts to construct and control the growing tobacco epidemic in Africa.

Teaching

• 5SSHM002 Key Concepts in Social Medicine

Further details

See David's research profile