School of Social and Political Science

Background

I completed my PhD at the University of California, San Diego, in Sociology and Science Studies. I am broadly interested in the ways that scientific expertise is differentiated from other forms of knowledge, and how scientific and technological innovations interact with other forms of social life. I am more particularly interested in the development, introduction, and circulation of new medical and healthcare technologies, particularly those utilizing big data and genomics. My doctoral research concerned the history of genetic epidemiology and its contemporary translations in personalized or precision health research, using case studies of the MyCode initiative at Geisinger Health in Pennsylvania, and the US National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program. 

While completing my graduate studies, I participated in the Biomedical Citizen Science Working Group, which was funded by a UCSD Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Collaboratory Award. My open access publications resulting from this work can be found here and here.

Prior to beginning my PhD, I also contributed to the Science and Islam Video Portal at Hampshire College.