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About

Tamara Giles-Vernick currently conducts research at the interstices of medical anthropology and ethnohistory (historical research using anthropological tools), investigating infectious disease transmission and global health interventions in Africa. She leads multidisciplinary research examining the changing nature and contexts of human contact with great apes and monkeys in equatorial Africa and the health consequences of that contact; she also conducts anthropological research on hepatitis B and vaccination, the historical emergence of HIV in central Africa; malnutrition; infantile diarrhea in the Central African Republic; an historical epidemiology of malaria in west Africa; hepatitis C transmission in hospital and dental settings in Egypt; a comparative history of pandemic influenza; a history of global health in Africa; and the history of epidemiological surveillance.

Transversal Projects

INCEPTION – Institut Convergence for the study of Emergence of Pathology Through Individuals and Populations

IINCEPTION Goal The Inception’s goal is to develop a core structure to mobilize data resources, numerical sciences, and fundamental experimental biology in a range of health issues (Official website here : https://www.inception-program.fr/en). Inception program […]

The Afribiota project

Towards a better understanding and treatment of childhood malnutrition in the developing world Context Throughout the world, one out of four children under five years experiences developmental delays. Malnutrition in early childhood leads to diminished […]

Projects

Project
Ongoing
13 Members

AFRIPOX

Arnaud Fontanet (PI)

AFRIPOX : une approche One Health de la variole du singe en République Centrafricaine
Project
Ongoing
2 Members

A Global Social Sciences Network for Infectious Threats and Antimicrobial Resistance (SoNAR-Global) (Horizon 2020)

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

SoNAR-Global is a global consortium led by social scientists specializing in emerging infectious diseases (EID) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It will build a sustainable international social science network to engage the active participation of […]
Project
Ongoing
6 Members

Microbial and viral circulations among people and wild and domesticated animals in an ecotone, Democratic Republic of Congo  (MICROTONE)

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

Zoonotic transmissions are a major global health risk, with human-animal contact frequently raised as a driver of emergence. Studies of zoonotic transmission risks are often piecemeal, targeting bushmeat, specific animal reservoirs, or single pathogens. […]
Project
Not started
4 Members

MITICA: Identifying the mechanisms of acquisition of a dysbiotic microbiota and pediatric environmental enteropathy in infants in the context of chronic malnutrition

Philippe Sansonetti (PI)

Undernutrition contributes to more than 40% of the global child mortality rate. In 2014 stunting, which is the main manifestation of chronic undernutrition, affected 159 million children. Stunting entails long-term repercussions for the child, […]
Project
Completed
4 Members

A sociocultural study of hepatitis B and vaccination in two contexts: Burkina Faso and Central African Republic

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

This study is an in-depth anthropological investigation of hepatitis B and vaccination in Ouagadougou, Bobo Dioulasso and the Cascades region of Burkina Faso, and in Bangui, Central African Republic. There exist few published anthropological […]
Project
Ongoing
2 Members

Biomedical Engagement in the West African Ebola epidemic

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

The aim of this study is to capture the experiences and individual recollections of biomedical researchers at a broad range of European, African, North American, and Asian research institutions participating in the response to […]
Project
Ongoing
3 Members

NéoVac (Neonatal Vaccination against Hepatitis B in Africa)

Yusuke Shimakawa (PI)

Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an important cause of premature adult deaths in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), due to liver cancer or cirrhosis. To reduce the disease burden, it is critical to […]
Project
Ongoing
2 Members

Ebola 100

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

The purpose of this study is to conduct a “history of the present” of the West African Ebola Outbreak by investigating the personal experiences and recollections of people involved in the humanitarian response. In […]
Project
Ongoing
2 Members

Hepatitis B in Burkina Faso and Central African Republic

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

As a follow-up to ANRS funding for a feasibility study (ANRS 12232), I received in 2011 funding from ANRS for an in-depth anthropological study of hepatitis B and vaccination in Bobo Dioulasso and the […]
Project
Ongoing
5 Members

A multi-disciplinary study of human beings, great apes, and viral emergence in equatorial Africa (SHAPES)

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

This multi-disciplinary study examines the changing nature and contexts of human contact with great apes and monkeys in equatorial Africa and the health consequences of that contact. Biomedical researchers have scrutinized the nature of […]
Project
Ongoing
2 Members

THE EMERGENCE OF HIV IN AFRICA : Ethnomedical and historical perspectives

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

The aim of this project is to develop a more grounded, robust historical context for the emergence of HIV. While some hypotheses for the emergence of HIV have been suggested, they have been offered […]
Project
Ongoing
3 Members

TORCADIA : Epidemiology of severe childhood diarrhea: A case control study in the Central African Republic (CAR)

Muriel Vray (PI)

(Collaborators: Sébastien Breurec, Ionela Gouandjika,Thierry Frank, Caroline Martin (IP Bangui), Petulla bata, Jean Gody (Complexe pédiatrique Bangui), Tamara Giles-Vernick, Loic chartier, Muriel Vray (IP Paris)). Funding : The fondation Total. Diarrhea ranks as the […]
Project
Ongoing
2 Members

Malaria in southwestern Burkina Faso

Tamara Giles-Vernick (PI)

(Collaborators : Tamara Giles-Vernick, Abdoulaye Traoré, Sodiomon B. Sirima). Funded by the World Health Organization, 2010-11. The primary aim was to test the acceptability and feasibility of an intervention package for the community management […]

CV

Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in Anthropology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, 2013.

Ph.D., African History, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1996.

Oxford Forestry Institute, University of Oxford, 1992

M.A., African History, with training in Anthropology, Agriculture and Rural Development, and Family History.

Bachelors of Arts, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 1985

The London School of Economics, London, England, 1983‑84

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