Ulrike Beisel

Uli Beisel is a human geographer and medical anthropologist. She is interested in the socio-ecological and socio-technical aspects of health and wellbeing, as well as uneven geographies of access to health care in sub-Saharan Africa. Uli’s work on malaria control in Ghana was concerned with the social ecologies and local biologies of malaria, and in particular the question how malaria interventions negotiate insecticide and drug tolerance. From 2016 - 2020 Uli has co-led a research project on Trust in Biomedicine after the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, Uganda and Ghana. In an international group of scholars from The United Kingdom, South Africa, Brazil, Ghana and Germany, a new project analyzes societal dimensions of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing in the Global South. She was appointed Professor of Human Geography with a focus on Development Studies at Free University Berlin as of April 2021.