Malarial Proximities: Senegal and the Silver Revolver Approach to Global Health

Marlee Tichenor is a PhD Candidate in the Joint Medical Anthropology Program at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. She spent a total of 14 months in Dakar, Senegal over three years working with the National Malaria Control Program, a biology lab, a public health center, and a community-based organization in a suburb of Dakar. She began her field work working with the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center at UC Berkeley, which is associated with a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to manufacture cheaper antimalarials semi-synthetically. Her academic interests are in science and technology studies and its convergence with an anthropology of health development in Senegal.