Immunocapital: Pandemics, Publics, and Immunity

了解有关免疫的知识在大流行期间和之前是如何演变的，是当今全球卫生中最紧迫和最复杂的问题之一，因为它可以在大流行反复发生的时候塑造健康结果和恢复。PI将培训人类学和历史方面的研究生，并与本科生合作。该项目将帮助制定全球卫生案例研究框架。这些将作为开源材料提供，并用于美国医学院的社会医学、流行病学和健康传播方面的教学项目。本课程材料还将用于全球健康教学计划的课程协作。该项目还将提供一个名为《城市中的感染和免疫：全球城市播客》的播客，将学者、健康活动家和政策制定者聚集在一起。这个播客将专注于接触更年轻的公众和外行听众，让他们熟悉与健康危机和风险有关的历史辩论。该项目旨在探索和揭示在大流行期间如何辩论、重塑和管理与免疫有关的知识和做法。它在生物、经济和社会思想的交叉点上提供了一个独特的视角，探索专家、政策制定者以及公众对流行病和预防性健康的理解如何定期重新创造免疫的意义。利用历史、人种学和政策分析，这个项目将把关于豁免权的知识形成放在殖民、后殖民和全球化的结构中，并探索它们如何受到种族主义、贫困、劳动实践和排斥的长期经验的影响。在全球卫生领域--近几十年来--人口被评估和定义为作为人力资本被重视和多产，或根据其免疫力和生产力被视为依赖和不成功，这些观点需要根据比较的历史研究重新校正。这提出了一个问题，即科学、经济和政治优先事项如何融合在一起，以塑造卫生基础设施，并间接影响关于谁的健康和不健康问题被考虑的选择。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Understanding how knowledge about immunity has evolved during and before pandemics is one of the most pressing and complex questions in global health today as it can shape health outcomes and recovery in a time of recurring pandemics. The PI will train graduate students in anthropology and history, and work with undergraduates. This project will help frame global health case studies. These will be available as open-source material and used in teaching programs in social medicine, epidemiology and health communication in US medical schools. This course material will also be used for curricular collaborations in global health teaching programs. The project will also offer a podcast titled, Infection and Immunity in Cities: A Global Cities Podcast anchored in New York City, bringing together scholars, health activists, and policy makers. This podcast will focus on reaching a younger public and lay listenership, to familiarize them with historical debates relating to health crises and risks. This project aims to explore and uncover how knowledge and practices relating to immunity are debated, recast and managed during pandemics. It offers a unique perspective at the intersections of biological, economic and social ideas to explore how the meanings of immunity are periodically recreated by experts, policymakers, and by the public’s understanding of epidemic disease and preventive health. Using historical, ethnographic, and policy analysis, this project will situate knowledge formation about immunity historically in colonial, post-colonial and globalizing structures, and explore how they are colored by long-term experiences of racism, poverty, labor practices, and exclusion. In global health–in recent decades–populations are evaluated and termed as being valued and productive as human capital, or viewed as dependent and unsuccessful based on their immunity and productivity, and these perspectives need to be recalibrated based on comparative, historical research. This raises questions about how science, economic, and political priorities are fused to shape the infrastructure of health, and indirectly affect choices about whose health and ill health matters are considered.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.