Author: Sarah Howard

Sarah Howard is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, as part of the Wellcome-funded Connecting Three Worlds research project that is incorporating the socialist world into the history of global health. She is working on a monograph about the everyday rural state in Ethiopia through the lives and aspirations of its lowest-level workers, and developing a new project, a historical-ethnographic account of early-years childcare in Ethiopia.

Sarah Howard

“Great job, mommy!” On the absurdity of teaching Ethiopian women to breastfeed

April, 2024 / By Sarah Howard

One scalding hot June day in 2014 in a remote village health post in North Shewa, Ethiopia, I attended an […]