Laura Mamo, Ph.D. (UCSF) is Director of the Health Equity Institute and Professor of Public Health at San Francisco State University. Her work lies at the intersection of critical public health studies and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine with a focus on gender and sexuality. Her research and teaching focus on sexuality and its politics in medicine, science, and health and health care discourse, practice, and resistance. She is the co-founder and co-Director with Martha Kenney of the Science, Technology, and Society Hub at SFSU, a feminist STS community oriented around social justice and community engaged projects at the intersections of sciences and society. Mamo is the author of Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention (University of Chicago Press, 2023); Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience (Duke University Press, 2007); co-author of Living Green: Communities that Sustain (New Society Press, 2010); and co-editor of Biomedicalization Studies: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness and U.S. Biomedicine (Duke University Press, 2010).

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