Mohammad Khamsya Bin Khidzer is Lecturer in Medicine, Health and Society at King's.

Mohammad received his PhD in Sociology and Science Studies from University of California San Diego in 2024, where he defended his dissertation "The Making of Racialized Diabetes in Postcolonial Singapore, 1960-2020” under the supervision of John Evans and Daniel Navon. Upon graduation, he traded the sunshine and burritos in California for bicycles and excellent cheeses in the Netherlands, joining Dr Fenneke Sysling's European Research Council funded COMET team at Leiden University as a postdoctoral researcher between 2024 and 2025.

When he is not working on his research, Mohammad enjoys riding his bicycle, playing recreational football and building Legos with his 7-year-old son. He is also learning how to make Chinese style egg tarts.

Research

• Medical Sociology
• Science, Knowledge and Technology in Society
• Southeast Asian Studies
• History of Medicine and Health

Mohammad is currently working on a book project examining the socio-historical emergence of 'Asian' Diabetes from Singapore. Drawing on archival research and interviews with policymakers, scientists, physicians, diabetes caregivers and people with diabetes, he traces the network of expertise involved in elevating Singapore's War on Diabetes into a global health concern, and what 'Asian' Diabetes means for Singaporeans who live with the disease.

Mohammad also hopes to transform part of his research data into a living archive which places patients’ expertise – experiences, knowledge and practices - at the forefront of medical knowledge on diabetes. This forms part of his longer-term goal of partnering with communities to produce public facing, accessible and inclusive knowledge on health and medicine.

Mohammad’s multi-modal work has been published in Biosocieties, Science Technology and Human Values, East Asian Science Technology and Society, Eikon Positions Politics, and Medium.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• 4SSHM01A - Social Science Perspectives on Medicine and Health
• 5SSHM002 - Biomedicine, Society and Global Health

PhD supervision

Mohammad would be happy to supervise topics that engage critically with science, medicine and race. He is especially interested in projects that examine health and medicine in Southeast Asia through a global lens, as well as research that draws on post and decolonial approaches to understand metabolic health in societies.

Further details

See Mohammad's research profile