Dr David Reubi
David is a sociologist and anthropologist working at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine in the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London. He has an international reputation for his work on the politics of knowledge in global health. His most recent work, funded by the Wellcome Trust, has explored the biopolitics of the African smoking epidemic. He has also worked on how the language of human rights has reshaped the field of global health.
Dr Thandeka Cochrane
Thandeka is a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Focusing on Africa, she combines history and anthropology to trace the epistemic entanglements of north-south circulations of systems of knowledge production and the attending dynamics of power, inequality, agency and social justice. Her current project, ‘’Lady Doctors’: women remaking medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa’ tells the story of women doctor’s working in Africa over the last century as powerful and proactive agents in their societies. Her previous research has included work on libraries, children’s literature and Early Childhood Development centres in Malawi, (PhD, University of Cambridge), indigenous knowledge production, colonial science, African intellectual history, and African health worlds. For the Cartographies of Cancer project she spearheaded the fieldwork at cancer registries in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa, as well as undertook extensive archival research on the history of African cancer research.
Dr Jennifer Fraser
Jennifer is an interdisciplinary historian of medicine and the inaugural Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity at the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University. With over a decade of experience working at the intersection of research, policy, and public engagement, her work explores the history and politics of health inequalities from global north and global south perspectives. Her work has featured in Medical History, Geohumanities, BMJ Global Health, the History of the Human Sciences, Science in Context, Technology and Culture, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal, as well as numerous edited collections.
Dr Kéassemaé E. Koui
Kéassemaé is a medical historian, who completed his PhD at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 2021. He has worked on the impact of cultural change on the health of the Wê people in the Ivory Coast from the pre- to the post-colonial period. He has also done research on how shifts in work practices have reshaped imaginaries of disease among the Krou people in the Ivory Coast. He teaches history at the Université de Bouaké, Ivory Coast, and is part of the ‘Groupe de Recherche Espace, Territoire, Société et Santé’ at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny.
Dr Franck Gnahatin
Franck is a physician and public health specialist at the National Cancer Control Programme in the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene of the Ivory Coast where he heads the Abidjan Cancer Registry. Before joining the Ministry, Franck was in charge of a Korean-funded project to improve access to primary health care in the town of Adiaké, in South-East Ivory Coast.
Dr Freddie Bray
Freddie is Head of the Cancer Surveillance Section at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. His works includes the estimation of the global cancer burden and the analysis of time trends of cancer. Freddie also leads the Global Initiative for Cancer Registration Development, which seeks to expand the coverage and quality of population-based cancer registries in low- and middle-income countries.
Ms Lily Mahdavi
Lily is a graduate of Global Health and Social Medicine (BSc) from King’s College London and a graduate of International Health Policy (MSc) from LSE. She is interested in all aspects of health and healthcare and believes in the importance of having a holistic understanding of the history of medicine to be able to analyse contemporary beliefs and practices. Her work for the Cartographies of Cancer project has involved archival work and bibliometric analysis of publications to uncover research trends across decades.
Dr Max Parkin
Max, a physician and epidemiologist by training, is Coordinator of AFCRN and a senior researcher at the University of Oxford. Before that, he spent over twenty years at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon where he was Director of the Descriptive Epidemiology Unit. Through his research and publications, Max has built a reputation as one of the world’s leading specialists on the epidemiology of cancer in Africa and beyond.
Ms Anne Korir
Anne is a research scientist working at the Kenya Medical Research Institute and pursuing a PhD in Epidemiology at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology. She has played a major role in the establishment and growth of the population-based cancer registries in Kenya. Among others, she has been the Director for Nairobi Cancer Registry for the last 7 years and is now working towards scaling her cancer registration work in Nairobi to the national level.
Ms Dior Thomas
Dior recently graduated from King’s College London with a degree in International Relations. She is interested in History, International Development and Global Politics. During her studies, she wrote articles about culture for an African women’s magazine.