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Adedamola Adetiba is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) and a Wellcome Early Career Fellow. Her work focuses on the history of antibiotics, antimicrobial stewardship, and medical governance in African contexts, particularly Nigeria. She holds a PhD in History from Rhodes University (2019), an MA from the University of Lagos (2015), and a BA from Adekunle Ajasin University (2012).
Her research examines how marginalized communities in Africa negotiated medical knowledge within colonial and postcolonial frameworks. Interdisciplinary approaches blend colonial history, medical anthropology, and African cultural studies. Key themes include the political ethics of global health policies, the role of traditional leadership in rural healthcare, and the localization of tropical medicine in colonial Lagos.
Adetiba has received prestigious awards including the African Humanities Programme Fellowship (2020) and a German Research Foundation-funded Visiting Fellowship at Rhodes University (2021). She actively contributes to academic governance through editorial work for Medical Anthropology and consultancies on pandemic reporting in Africa.
Her publications span 140 years of medical history, analyzing topics from burial rituals resisting colonialism to neoliberalism's impact on pandemic responses. She supervises doctoral students and advocates for inclusive health histories that center African agency and knowledge systems.
