Anne Pollock

Anne Pollock is a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College, London. Previously, she spent a decade on the faculty of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Her research and teaching focus on biomedicine and culture, theories of race and gender, and ways in which science and medicine are mobilized in social justice projects.

Her new book, Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Synthesizing Hope draws on research at a small South African pharmaceutical company that was founded with the mission of finding new drugs for TB, HIV, and malaria, and explores how it matters who makes pharmaceutical knowledge and where.  An interactive site on this project can be explored at mappingithemba.com.

This PECE essay helps to answer the STS Across Borders analytic question: “What people, projects, and products exemplify how this STS formation has developed over time?”

This essay highlights prominant and upcoming individuals working on critical science and technology issues in Africa and is part of a broader exhibit on "STS in Africa."