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Marlee Tichenor

Staff Writer

Anthropology

Marlee Tichenor is a sixth-year graduate student in the joint Medical Anthropology Program at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. Her research is focused on the global health fight against malaria, which includes attending to the biotech startup culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and to the ways that global health goals meet and interface with local action and goals in Dakar, Senegal.

marleejot@gmail.com

More by this author

  • May 7, 2015 by Marlee Tichenor

    Battling Ebola

    A UC Berkeley professor has been part of a network of researchers working to apply local anthropological knowledge in the fight to contain the most deadly Ebola outbreak in history.

     

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  • December 16, 2014 by Marlee Tichenor

    Africa's AIDS Industry

    Fighting stigma, helping orphans, and empowering women are popular areas of funding for AIDS-prevention efforts in Africa, but not because they are the most effective strategies.
     

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  • September 16, 2014 by Marlee Tichenor

    Invisible Users

    Invisible Users, a book by UC Berkeley's Jenna Burrell, explores the youth culture of Internet cafés in Ghana, which upends expectations about the power and purpose of technology.

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  • August 6, 2014 by Marlee Tichenor

    ADHD Explosion

    Two Berkeley professors argue that ADHD must be understood as both a social and biological condition.

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