Post-Graduate Schooling
Medical
1985-1990
MD, Université de Montréal
1990-1992
Courses in epidemiology and biostatistics, McGill University
1990-1992
Residency in Family Medicine, The Montreal General Hospital
Graduate
1994-1996
MA, Medical Anthropology, McGill University
Thesis title: “Illness, epidemiology and visibility: an anthropological account of the emergence of a community based response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Côte-d’Ivoire.”
1996-2001
PhD, Medical Anthropology, McGill University
Thesis title: “Epidemics, interzones and biosocial change: retroviruses and biologies of globalisation in West Africa.” Dean’s Honour list.
Post-graduate training
2002-2003
Postdoctoral fellow, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris).
Appointments
Academic
1992-1993
Faculty Lecturer, Department of Family Medicine
1993-2001
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
2001-2006
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
2001-2003
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology
2003-
Associate Member, Department of Anthropology
2004-2006
Associate Professor, Department of Social Studies of Medicine
2006-
Professeur agrégé, Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Montréal
2006-
Associate Professor, The Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
Clinical
1992-2000
Associate Physician, Department of Family Medicine, The Montreal General Hospital
1992-2000
Associate Physician, Department of Emergency Services, The Montreal General Hospital
1992-2000
Associate Physician, Department of Medicine, The Montreal General Hospital
1992-2002
Associate Physician, Department of Family Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital Centre
1992-2002
Associate Physician, Department of Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital Centre
2000-
HIV Specialist, Clinique médicale l’Actuel
2000-
Associate Physician, Department of Family Medicine, SMBD Jewish General Hospital
Research
2003-
Project Director, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, SMBD Jewish General Hospital
2004-
Chercheur, Centre de recherches du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM)
2006-
Research fellow, The Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
Other
1994-1998
Trustee, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
2000-
Board of Directors, Médecins du Monde Canada
Current Research Collaborations
2006-2009
(with S Rashed) Building capacity to reinforce adherence to antiretroviral therapy and sexual prevention for patients in or from resource-limited settings, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Program on HIV/AIDS ($441 100)
2007-2010
(with Banza Baya, Fournier Pierre, Haddad Slim) Vulnérabilité et équité en santé en Afrique International Development Research Centre ($1 600 000)
Invited Lectures, Talks and Presentations
1995
Three bodies of AIDS, Département de littérature comparée, Université de Montréal
1996
Freud’s Theory of Memory, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
1996
Anthropology of AIDS, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
1997
Anthropology of AIDS, Department of Anthropology, Concordia University
1997
The body in African history: disease, recovered resistance, colonial medicine and the science of empire. Department of History, University of Michigan.
1997
Transnational practices and local suffering: gender, community, faith and HIV in West Africa, Departments of History and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan
1997
Corps et technologies du soi: le cas du sida au Burkina Faso, Département d’Anthropologie, Université de Montréal
1998
Technologies of suffering: towards an ethnography of the AIDS industry in Francophone West Africa, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
1998
Pouvoirs, corps, résistance, Département d’anthropologie, Université de Montréal
1998
HIV/AIDS, Community and Identity in America and Africa, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
1998
Medical anthropology, colonial history, and AIDS in Africa, Department of History, University of Michigan
1999
AIDS in Africa, Interdisciplinary course on AIDS, Concordia University
1999
Homosexual panic in postcolonial Ivory Coast, Gay and Lesbian Studies Programme, Yale University
1999
Ethnographic approaches to the HIV epidemic in West Africa, Institut für Ethnologie, Freie Universität Berlin
2000
The politics of postcolonial biomedicine: the genealogy of an AIDS research institute in Abidjan, Côte-d’Ivoire, Department of Anthropology, New York University
2000
Antiretroviral Therapy of AIDS Patients in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: The biopolitics of treatment in an age of transnational activism, Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2001
Presentation of the Agora Project, “Theater der Natur und Kunst” exhibition, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.
2001
Epidemics, interzones and biosocial change: retroviruses and biologies of globalisation in West Africa, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz.
2001
Retroviral epidemics in West Africa: a biosocial approach, Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia.
2001
Globalization and biopolitics: antiretroviral HIV therapy and biosocial change in West Africa, Life sciences, values, and society program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2002
Social theory and AIDS activism in West Africa, Humanities Centre, Central European University, Budapest.
2002
AIDS, development and homosexuality in a West African metropolis. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth.
2002
Access to HIV treatment and social triage in West African AIDS groups, Humanities Centre, Central European University, Budapest.
2003
Community based access to treatment for HIV in Burkina Faso. Governance, equity and health conference, International Development Research Council, Pretoria.
2004
Sexual modernity in Abidjan, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley.
2004
The history of the AIDS epidemic: old controversies, new insights, What can social theory contribute to understanding and addressing AIDS?, What can social theory contribute to understanding and addressing AIDS? and Societies and politics after AIDS, Institute on health, politics and society in Africa, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar.
2004
Rethinking HIV prevention. Keynote address to the West African Project to Combat AIDS and STDs, Bamako, Mali.
2004
Transnational therapeutic citizenship: biopolitics, subjectivity, the humanitarian industry and HIV/AIDS, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest.
2004
Cultures of colonialism in Côte-d’Ivoire. African History Seminar, University of Michigan.
2004
HIV activism in Africa and the implications of therapeutic citizenship. Ethnologisches Seminar der Universität Zürich.
2005
Local and global epidemiology of HIV. Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université de Montréal.
2005
New developments in access to antiretrovirals in Africa. African Studies Association, McGill University.
2005
Antiretrovirals, activism and biopolitics in West Africa. Departament d’antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
2005
The embodiment of health inequalities: the case of rapidly expanding access to antiretrovirals in West Africa, Keynote address, Rethinking Inequalities And Differences In Medicine : An Interdisciplinary Conference, Vanderbilt University, Center for Medicine, Health & Society, Nashville
2005
Reflexivity and engagement in Medicine and Medical Anthropology. MD. Practicing theory, theorizing practice: physician scholars in the social sciences and humanities. Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California at San Francisco.
2005
Implications de l’accès élargi aux antirétroviraux en Afrique (et ailleurs): le triage social et la citoyenneté thérapeutique, Groupe de recherché sur les aspects sociaux de la santé et de la prévention, Université de Montréal.
2006
Anthropological and Epidemiological approaches to antiretroviral treatment in Burkina Faso and Mali, Department of International Health, University of Copenhagen.
2006
Therapeutic Citizenship in the Age of Global Antiretrovirals, University of California San Francisco.
2006
Global biomedicine in the era of AIDS relief: emergence of a military therapeutic complex in Africa? University of California at San Francisco.
Institutional Affiliations
- African Studies Association
- American Anthropological Association
- Canadian Association for HIV Research
- Society for Medical Anthropology
- Society for the Social History of Medicine