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Dr. Marlee Tichenor is a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science, specializing in medical anthropology with a focus on global health policy and data politics. Her work examines how evidence and data shape international health interventions, particularly through ethnographic studies of pharmaceutical approaches to malaria in Senegal and metric development at international organizations like the World Bank.
Her educational background includes a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California-Berkeley and University of California-San Francisco, and a BA (Hons) in Anthropology and French from UC Berkeley. Her research interests span medical anthropology, global health policy, ethnography, technology and society, international development, quantification, and postcolonial science and technology studies.
Tichenor's recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on how data, metrics, and quantification shape global health governance. Her work examines statistical capacity building, the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures, and the role of international organizations like the World Bank in health knowledge production. She analyzes how measurement frameworks influence policy implementation and resource allocation in global health initiatives.
As a Chancellor's Fellow, Tichenor supervises PhD students in Social Anthropology and MSc students in Social Anthropology and Sociology and Anthropology of Health and Illness. Her current research continues to explore data ecosystems in global health, particularly in Senegal, examining how digital health data infrastructures are developed and implemented in Global South contexts.
