Donna A. Patterson

Professor Patterson is currently working on a research project on Ebola and another on transnational drug consumption and distribution. Some of her articles, reviews, and essays were published in the World Medical and Health Policy Journal, the Journal of Women's History, Journal of American History, and Anthropologie et Santé. Her work on the 2014 Ebola crisis for Anthropologie et Santé journal was featured in Sciences Humaines magazine in March 2016. She has forthcoming articles on drug markets (illicit and pharmaceutical), Ebola, and politics in West Africa and the Horn of Africa. Her commentary on Ebola, African affairs, and Covid-19 has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate Magazine, Foreign Policy, Pacific Standard, Huffington Post, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, Boston Globe, KJZZ, WDDE, ABC-47 and at other outlets.

Patterson teaches courses in African history and global health as well as classes in African and African Diaspora studies. Professor Patterson has held numerous fellowships, including recent ones from New America, the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch and the West African Research Association. Twitter: @PharmacySenegal