Reconceptualizing "Cancer Vaccines" in Light of Covid-19

The project objectives are to reconceptualize vaccines by methodologically mapping their social worlds and conceptualization, asking to what justice and social approaches can these be configured anew. A Brocher Foundation residency would allow intensive time to conduct this analysis and plan and begin writing at least one major article on conceptualizing vaccines in/and of biomedicalization. 

Expected Outcomes 

In this project, mapping vaccine conceptualization in Covid-19 and HPV vaccines and contextualizing these in relation to conceptualization of health and illness will allow questions of the justice possibilities in vaccine governance to take center stage shifting the model of “individual autonomy” “choice” and “rights”. What goes unnoticed, under theorized, and unaddressed?  How do our conceptualizations of vaccines shape bio/health-justice?

My expected outcomes are to:

1. Map conceptualizations drawing on Covid-19 contestations in US, Italy, and at the WHO
2. Complete conceptual memos of vaccine conceptualizations
3. Draft a article for publication in a global health journal 
4. Consider, through discussion with other fellows, appropriate places to submit opinion pieces for publications with international, lay audiences.

Bioethics and Bio-Justice: Emergent Debates in HPV and Cancer Prevention