CAREER: A Case Study of Malaria Elimination Efforts with Relation to Vernacular Knowledge, Expertise, and Ethics

该职业奖支持新的研究，重点关注撒哈拉以南非洲和桑给巴尔岛一个世纪以来消除疟疾的努力。这项研究将绘制出涉及的全球机构、疾病环境的变化以及当地社区面临的风险。主要的指导和教育活动包括开发新的STS/非洲研究课程；管理一个本科全球卫生研究小组；聘请本科生担任研究助理；担任学生本科毕业论文的主要指导老师；并为STS/非洲研究领域的博士后学者提供一年的指导。研究成果将以一本书、四篇文章、博客文章、会议演讲、邀请大学演讲和学生演讲的形式传播。这个关于非洲消灭疟疾尝试的研究项目使用了非洲、欧洲和美国的档案、人种学和口头研究。它将利用STS框架，同时结合有关科学人类学和生物医学的文献，并将产生一系列密切相关的研究和教育成果，这些研究和教育成果将围绕历史、伦理和本地知识在全球卫生运动中的作用等问题展开。研究结果将有助于非洲研究/STS文献关于如何将本土知识整合到主流认识论框架中，并通过对全球卫生干预的伦理进行民族志和历史知情研究，增加后殖民技术科学文献。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This CAREER award supports new research that focuses on a century of malaria elimination attempts in sub-Saharan Africa and on the island of Zanzibar. The research will chart the global institutions involved, changes in disease environments, and risks that accrued to local communities. Key mentoring and educational activities include developing new STS/African Studies courses; running an undergraduate global health research group; hiring undergraduates to work as research assistants; serving as primary advisor for students writing undergraduate theses; and providing a year of mentorship for a post-doctoral scholar in STS/African Studies. Research findings will be disseminated in the form of a book, four articles, blog posts, conference presentations, invited lectures at universities, and student presentations.This research project on malaria elimination attempts in Africa uses archival, ethnographic, and oral research in Africa, Europe, and the US. It will draw on STS frameworks while engaging with literatures on the anthropology of science and biomedicine, and it will result in a series of closely-linked research and educational outputs centered around questions of history, ethics, and the role of vernacular knowledge in global health campaigns. Findings will contribute to the African Studies/STS literature about how to integrate vernacular knowledge into dominant epistemological frameworks and add to the postcolonial technoscience literature by doing ethnographically and historically informed research about the ethics of global health interventions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.