The Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series engages with some of the most pressing public health issues of our time, in a regular public forum catalyzed by a book. Join us to celebrate JHU professor Julia Cummiskey’s exciting new book this week! Co-sponsored by the JHU Program in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (see full event poster below!)

This event will feature Dr. Julia Cummiskey, author of Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global, with Dr. Svea Closser joining in conversation. 

Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda presents the stories of scientists at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), a biomedical center founded in 1936. The book analyzes the strategies and conditions that allowed the institute to endure and thrive through successive political and scientific regimes of the interwar period, the postwar period, the transition to independence, the conflicts of the 1970s and 1980s, and the Museveni presidency. Julia Ross Cummiskey combines methods and themes from the history of medicine and public health, science and technology studies, and African studies to show that the story of the UVRI and the people who worked there transforms our understanding of the nature of local and international expertise and the evolution of global health research over the course of the twentieth century. She will be joined in conversation by Dr. Svea Closser, associate professor in International Health: Social and Behavioral Interventions.