From Zika to AIDS and Back Again: Stories of Virus Research in Uganda
From Zika to AIDS and Back Again: Stories of Virus Research in Uganda Online
Join us for a talk by Dr. Julia Cummiskey as part of the Making A World of Difference: Stories About Global Health exhibit from the National Library of Medicine. Julia Cummiskey earned her MPH from Columbia University in 2007 and her PhD in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University in 2017. She has taught at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she was the interim director of the Africana Studies program and is now on the faculty of the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Cummiskey’s research interrogates the history of global health—what it is, how it came to be, its limitations, and its potential. Her first book, Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global was published in 2024 by Ohio University Press in the series “Perspectives on Global Health”. She is currently working on several collaborations to document and analyze the changes in global health research and practice following the decision to close USAID and eliminate most US funding for global health programs as well as a new project on the history of public health communication in East Africa. Refreshments will be provided. This event is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment) and co-sponsored by the Center for Arts in Medicine.
This event will take place in C1-015. It will also be available on Zoom
The National Library of Medicine produced the associated exhibition and companion website.
Related LibGuide: Making a World of Difference: Stories About Global Health by Chloe Hough
- Date:
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Library:
- Health Science Center Libraries
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://ufl.zoom.us/j/96653172877
- Audience:
- UF Faculty UF Staff UF Students
