On Pandemic Prophecy, Unsustainable Lockdowns and the Magic of Numbers: A Conversation with Carlo Caduff
As vast parts of the world went into Covid-19 lockdown over the past months critics of this approach have emerged […]
Carlo Caduff
Carlo Caduff is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King’s College London. He also serves as Director of Postgraduate Research Studies and Chair of the Culture, Medicine and Power (CMP) research group. With colleagues at King’s, Harvard and Johns Hopkins, he launched the Global Social Medicine network in 2018. https://globalsocialmedicine.org/
Carlo's work explores global health at the intersection of science, medicine, media and the state. In addition to The Pandemic Perhaps, a book on pandemic preparedness in the United States, articles appeared in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Critical Inquiry, BioSocieties, Annual Review of Anthropology, Cambridge Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, Medicine Anthropology Theory, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
More recently, Carlo started work on a new project on cancer in India. This work examines experiments with accessible and affordable care in public cancer centres. In 2019 Carlo received an Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust to examine, over the next fiveyears, the changing landscape of oncology in India.