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Fatima Elfitouri 

PhD student

Biography

Fatima Elfitouri is a PhD student in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine. She completed a BSc(Hons) in Cell Biology at the University of Manchester in 2014 and a MA in Medical Anthropology from SOAS in 2017.

She spent a year conducting research in molecule biology at the University of Nottingham and another year working on antimalarial resistant at the MRC unit in the Gambia. 

Research

Thesis title: 'Cancer in the Cuban bioscape: a laboratory ethnography'

Her PhD project focuses on Cancer research in Cuba. She takes an interdisciplinary approach that brings together STS, anthropology and, decolonial and postcolonial theories to explore the intersections of scientific innovation and the political and social context in the Global South.      

PhD supervision

Further details

See Fatima's research profile

Research

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GHSM Anti Racism Steering Group

The Anti Racism Steering Group is a staff-student led initiative in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine (GHSM).

Research

black-history-month-lsm
GHSM Anti Racism Steering Group

The Anti Racism Steering Group is a staff-student led initiative in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine (GHSM).