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For the last 50 years, generations of African, North American and European scientists and health workers have tried to fight Lassa fever, a rodent borne disease that is endemic in parts of west Africa. Research and responses to the disease have received substantial investment. Yet the disease remains “neglected”; people who live in the region continue to be at risk from Lassa fever and unlikely to receive good care and treatment in the event of infection. This talk draws on long-term ethnographic engagement and a collaborative book project that is close to completion. In the book, Annie Wilkinson, Almudena Marí Sáez and I argue that, counterintuitively, scientific investments into Lassa Fever have helped to produce the very neglect that they aim to alleviate. Following the zoonotic, health systems and laboratory geographies of Lassa in Sierra Leone, we show how similar kinds of blind spots animate these sites of global health science, and how the expertise of those most familiar with the disease and the rodents that spread it – health workers and people in who live in the region – is systematically overlooked. The parallels across these different sites raise questions about what is at stake when we isolate “zoonoses” as a novel or distinct area of study and what we might miss when we view it separately from other dimensions relevant to global and national public health, and point us towards new ways of understanding the politics of neglect in global health settings.

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2025年9月30日（火）
14時30分～16時00分
京都大学稲盛財団記念館３階小会議室1

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