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Noelle Sullivan is a Teaching Professor and Director of the Global Health Studies Program at Northwestern University, where she has served as core faculty since 2012. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida (2011).
Her research focuses on global health, health sector reform, transnational governance, and the ethics of international volunteerism, with fieldwork in Tanzania and the United States. She critically examines institutional cultures, medical waste systems, and intersections of gender, sexuality, and neocolonial healthcare practices.
Key publications include analyses of public-private partnerships in Tanzanian healthcare, critiques of medical voluntourism, and ethnographic studies of health policy implementation. Her upcoming book The Business of Good Intentions reframes debates around global health volunteerism.
- 2018: Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Lecturer
- 2016-2017: Public Voices Fellow (Op-Ed Project)
She teaches courses on global health policy, volunteer ethics, and biomedicine & culture, while advocating for neurodivergent student accessibility through NUIT’s Brain Trust team.
