Biography

My research focuses on lung disease epidemics in twentieth century China, with a particular interest in visual communications of public health messages. My project, which is funded by the Gates Cambridge Trust, explores the ways in which lung disease shaped the everyday, touching upon notions of body, modernity, and nationhood across the 1949 divide through visual and print cultures of lung disease public health campaigns.

I was previously at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick, working on public health and neuroscience under social democracy in the mid-twentieth century with the support of a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities MA Award. I also taught on the undergraduate module 'Social Theory of Law' at the Warwick Sociology department in 2017.

At Cambridge, I have supervised undergraduates on 'Science in the Making of Modern Medicine' and 'Science and Medicine since World War I'. Beside my academic work I run a human rights campaign focusing on political prisoners in China. As part of this work I have testified before US Congress, UK and Canadian Parliaments, and the United Nations Human Rights Council. I have contributed articles and commentary for outlets such as The Washington Post, The Guardian, Hong Kong Free Press and a number of Swedish publications. As of 2022, I also serve on the board of The Campaign for Hong Kong.

Previous Education

The University of Warwick