The team
The strategic award brings together historians of medicine and biology from across the University of Cambridge. We have expertise in every major historical period and in approaches from quantifying parish records to interviewing scientists.
Principal investigators:
- Rebecca Flemming (Classics): Ancient Roman medicine
- John Forrester (HPS): History and philosophy of psychoanalysis and human sciences
- Nick Hopwood (HPS): History of modern medicine and biology (principal award holder)
- Martin Johnson (Physiology, Development and Neuroscience): History of recent embryology
- Peter Jones (King's College): Medieval medicine
- Lauren Kassell (HPS): Early-modern medicine
- Eleanor Robson (HPS): Medicine in the ancient and pre-modern Middle East (collaborator)
- Jim Secord (HPS): History of life sciences
- Richard Smith (Geography): Historical demography and historical population geography
- Simon Szreter (History): History and public policy
Events and outreach officer: Shirlene Badger (HPS)
Research and teaching associate (early-modern generation): Karin Ekholm (HPS)
Teaching associate (history of modern medicine and biology): Vanessa Heggie (HPS)
Research associate (history of reproductive sciences): Salim Al-Gailani (HPS)
Research assistant (ancient medicine): Fay Glinister (Classics)
PhD student (history of pregnancy testing): Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (HPS and Robinson College)
Former team members
Events and outreach officer: Francis Neary
Research assistant (history of venereal disease): Jacqueline Cahif (History)
Research associate (biodemography and mortality): Romola Davenport (Geography)
Teaching associate (modern economic and social history of Britain): Siân Pooley (History and Pembroke College)