Prof. Susan Reynolds Whyte:
PANEL DISCUSSION: What does Global Health research do right now? What does it need to do tomorrow?
Susan Reynolds Whyte, Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork in East Africa on topics including the management of misfortune, changing health systems, disability, pharmaceuticals, and the response to HIV. In addition to journal articles, she has co-edited three books, The Social Context of Medicines in Developing Countries (1988), Disability and Culture (1995), Disability in Local and Global Worlds (2007), written a monograph, ‘Questioning Misfortune: The pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda (1997), and co-authored Popular Pills (1996) and Social Lives of Medicines (2003). For 20 years she has collaborated with universities in Africa to strengthen their research capacity in social aspects of health.