On October 6, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it was recommending the first malaria vaccine, known as RTS,S, for broad use. The next day, we entered a University of Oregon classroom to meet 20 freshmen enrolled in Malaria: Science, Ethics, History, Technology. We wanted our students to know two things about the new… Read more →
Melissa Graboyes
Melissa Graboyes
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Melissa Graboyes is an associate professor of history and director of the African Studies at the University of Oregon. She’s the author of The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014 (Ohio University Press, 2015) and a co-editor of Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent (Ohio University Press, 2019), which won the African Studies Review prize for best Africa-focused anthology/edited volume. Graboyes’s current book project is a history of malaria elimination attempts in Africa over the last century, which is funded by a 5-year US National Science Foundation grant and involves ten undergraduate research assistants. She has begun writing about the novel coronavirus at https://www.coronaviruschronicles.com/