Dissertation Research: Institutional Innovation in a Malaria Control Partnership in Tanzania: an ethnographic study

这是一项科学技术研究论文改进资助。这名研究人员将在坦桑尼亚创新疟疾控制项目的背景下研究不断变化的主要卫生发展范式对国际合作和知识生产的影响。这笔赠款的资金将用于资助前往坦桑尼亚的旅行。资金还将用于购买一些设备。该项目的重点是一种称为伙伴关系的新兴机构形式，它正在扩散和改变国际卫生领域。该项目将阐明影响发展中国家国际卫生研究和疾病控制的组织和做法的全球力量；这种干预在实地和在更广泛的发展机构内所引起的有意和无意的变化；权威知识的产生是（生物医学）科学和发展的核心和组成部分，作为普及的努力。通过将合作伙伴关系作为一种越来越有影响力但却缺乏描述的组织形式，该项目还将为研究全球化文化现象的地方实例提供理论和方法上的贡献。该项目还将揭示一种被忽视但具有毁灭性的疾病，这种疾病是（贫困）儿童和孕妇的主要杀手。疟疾是撒哈拉以南非洲大部分地区造成死亡和疾病的主要原因，但人们对这一祸害的社会文化意义及其社会影响知之甚少。通过提供坦桑尼亚当地人民如何应对疟疾和应对创新机构应对措施以控制疟疾的情境视角，该项目还将对应用人类学、健康传播，最重要的是，对制定符合文化的疾病控制方案作出重要贡献。

This is a Science and Technology Studies dissertation improvement grant. The researcher will examine the effects of changing dominant health development paradigms on international collaboration and knowledge production in the context of an innovative malaria control program in Tanzania. Funds from the grant will support travel to Tanzania. Funds will also support some equipment purchases. The focus of the project is an emergent institutional form loosely referred to as partnership, which is proliferating and transforming the field of international health. The project will shed light on the global forces that shape the organization and practice of international health research and disease control in developing countries; the intended and unintended changes that such interventions elicit both on the ground and within the wider development apparatus in which these are embedded; and the production of authoritative knowledge that is central to and constitutive of (biomedical) science and development as universalizing endeavors. Through its focus on partnerships as an increasingly influential yet poorly described organizational form, this project will also offer theoretical and methodological contributions for studying local instantiations of globalizing cultural phenomena. The project will also shed light on a neglected but devastating disease that is a leading killer of (poor) children and pregnant women. Malaria is the leading cause of death and illness in large parts of sub-Saharan Africa, but little is known about the sociocultural meanings of this scourge or its social impact. By providing a situated perspective on how local people in Tanzania deal with malaria and respond to innovative institutional responses to control it, this project will also make important contributions to applied anthropology, health communication and most significantly, the development of culturally appropriate disease control programs.