graboyes

Curriculum Vitae
Full Name
Melissa Graboyes
First Name
Melissa
Last Name
Graboyes
Affiliation
Alumni
Faculty
Title
Associate Professor
Phone
541-346-2829
Office
369 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours
Thursdays 1:30-3:30pm Sign up at https://graboyes-officehours.youcanbook.me/
Departments
Global Health Program
History
Affiliated Departments
African Studies
Global Health Program
Profile Section
Profile

My current work focuses on telling the story of human experimentation and medical ethics in East Africa from 1940-1980. It is a history of the very real encounters that made up medical research in the region: of European doctors taking blood samples under cover of darkness; African assistants going door to door collecting stool samples in tarred jars; and of school children lined up to receive injections. It is also a recounting of peoples' responses to and understanding of these encounters. 

My hope is that a careful history of medical research in East Africa will provide useful information to contextualize current public health debates, and create more sensitive policy and research programs in the future. Through work both inside and outside of the university, my commitment is to high quality research on issues related to medicine, health and disease on the African continent. I am particularly interested in making research findings accessible to the larger public, and serving as a bridge to translate academic findings to practitioners working in the field.

More about my work, and information about researching and traveling in East Africa can be found on my website: www.uoregon.edu/~graboyes

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