Marissa Mika

I am the author of Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda, which was a finalist for both the ASA Best Book Prize and the Bethwell A. Ogot Award for Best Book in East African Studies in 2022. In 2019, I served as the founding director of the medical humanities program at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. Trained as a historian and anthropologist of medicine, science, and technology in Africa, she has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the History and Sociology of Science and a MHS in International Health from Johns Hopkins. I live in Berkeley, California where I work as a writer and developmental editor.