Maria Teresa Marangoni

I am a final year PhD candidate in History; my project looks at the development of the public health discourse since the 1950s, and at the interactions between the Global Health policy regime and local health governance. I am appraching my research questions from the point of view of Cultural History, however my investigation is informed by Medical Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies.

During my PhD, I have also taught as a Postgraduate Teaching Associate from September 2022 to May 2024.

My PhD reasearch project

I am exploring Global Health discourse and local health governance, more specifically, the current web of relations between the global health framework and how its visions manifest locally. In order to do so, I am taking one particular area of policy, namely childhood immunisation policies, and follow its development starting from the post WWII period and zooming in on the more recent decades. My case study focusses on the Veneto region in Northern Italy.

The project relies on archival research and on Oral History interviews. By combining and triangulating these different sources I aim to unpack the multiple, interacting layers and power-dynamics involved in the global-local health policy interaction, i.e. global public discourse, competing professional and personal narratives, and geopolitical forces.

Because of the complexity of the subject matter, this is an interdisciplinary research project, which is solidly grounded in History and is informed by analytical perspectives from Medical Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies. My supervisory team is interdisciplinary and affiliated with the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health

First Supervisor: Professor Dora Vargha 

SecondSupervisor: Professor Steve Hinchliffe

P.S. Informally, I also go by Maresa Marangoni.