Dr Marlee Tichenor
Job Title
Chancellor's Fellow
Room number
3.13Building (Address)
Crystal Macmillan BuildingStreet (Address)
15a George SquareCity (Address)
EdinburghCountry (Address)
UKPost code (Address)
EH8 9LDResearch interests
Research interests
Ethnography, Humanitarian intervention, Technology and society, Health policy, International development, Medical Anthropology, Quantification, International Organisations, postcolonial science and technology studies, Senegal, Global health governance, Global Health Policy, Anthropology of Global Health
Marlee is a medical anthropologist interested in the politics of evidence and data in global health policy and intervention. Her doctoral research at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco was a multi-sited ethnographic study of pharmaceutical interventions, antimalarial resistance research, and community-based approaches to the fight against malaria in Senegal. Her second project, at the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh with the Global Health Governance Programme with Professor Devi Sridhar, investigated the development of metrics at the World Bank for measuring success in global health projects, as well as their influence on the global agenda of, and national strategies for, universal health coverage. As a part of the METRO project, she focused on the central role of statistical capacity building in the 2030 Development Agenda and the ways that the ‘Data Revolution’ has been positioned as the solution to its complicated goals.
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Background
Qualifications
PhD in Medical Anthropology (University of California-Berkeley and University of California-San Francisco); BA Hons (equivalent) Anthropology and French (University of California-Berkeley)
Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Bandola-Gill J, Grek S, & Tichenor M. 2023. The rise of the reflexive expert? Epistemic, care-ful and instrumental reflexivity in global public policy. Global Social Policy.
Bandola-Gill J, Grek S, & Tichenor M. 2022. Governing the Sustainable Development Goals: Quantification in Global Social Policy. Springer/ Palgrave Macmillan: Sustainable Development Goals Series.
Tichenor M. 2022. Statistical Capacity Development and Producing Epistemic Infrastructures. Policy & Society.
Tichenor M, Merry SE, Grek S, & Bandola-Gill J. 2022. Global Public Policy in a Quantified World: Sustainable Development Goals as Epistemic Infrastructures. Policy & Society. For our co-edited special issue: Global Public Policy in a Quantified World: Sustainable Development Goals as Epistemic Infrastructures.
Tichenor M, Winters J, Storeng KT, Bump J, Gaudillière J-P, Gorsky M, Hellowell M, Kadama P, Kenny K, Shawar YR, Songane F, Walker A, Whitacre R, Asthana S, Fernandes G, Stein F, Sridhar D. 2021. Interrogating the World Bank’s role in global health knowledge production, governance, and finance. Globalization and Health.
Tichenor M. 2020. Metrics. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology F. Stein, S. Lazar, M. Candea, H. Diemberger, J. Robbins, A. Sanchez & R. Stasch, eds.
Ganguli-Mitra, A, Young I, Engelmann L, Harper I, McCormack D, Marsland R, Segal LB, Sethi N, Stewart E, & Tichenor M. 2020. Segmenting Communities as Public Health Strategy: A View from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Wellcome Open Research 5:104.
Tichenor M & Sridhar D. 2019. Metric Partnerships: Global Burden of Disease Estimates within the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Wellcome Open Research: The World Bank in Global Public Health.
Wenham C et al. 2018. Global Health Security and Universal Health Coverage: From a Marriage of Convenience to a Strategic, Effective Partnership. British Medical Journal Global Health.
Tichenor M & Sridhar D. 2017. Universal health coverage, health systems strengthening, and the World Bank. British Medical Journal 358: j3347.
Tichenor M. 2017. Data Performativity, Performing Health Work: Malaria and Labor in Senegal. Medical Anthropology 36(5): 436-448.
Book Chapters, Conference Proceedings, and Perspective Pieces
Tichenor M & Sridhar D. 2018. Disruptors: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Series on Global Health Disruption for the 10th anniversary of the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The BMJ Opinion Blog.
Tichenor M. 2018. Dosing Therapies: Artemisia annua whole plant therapy, resistance, and evidence production in Senegal. GlobalMed Proceedings.
Tichenor M. 2016. The Power of Data: Global Health Citizenship and the Senegalese Data Retention Strike. In Metrics: What Counts in Global Health. Vincanne Adams, ed. Pp. 106- 124. Durham: Duke University Press.
Works within
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Beresford H, Muis I, Oman S, Redden J, Renkema E, Tichenor M et al. Practitioner interventions in data power. In Jarke J, Bates J, editors, Dialogues in Data Power: Shifting Response-abilities in a Datafied World. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024. p. 103–119 doi: 10.51952/9781529238327.ch005 |
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Tichenor M. La datafication des politiques de santé et l'écosystème des données numériques de santé au Sénégal. Anthropologie & Santé. 2024 May 29;28:1-19. doi: 10.4000/11r34 |
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Qureshi K, Tichenor M. Anthropologies of health policy. Anthropology and Medicine. 2024;31(1-2):1-17. Epub 2024 Sept 2. doi: 10.1080/13648470.2024.2373012 |
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Bandola-Gill J, Grek S, Tichenor M. The rise of the reflexive expert? Epistemic, care-ful and instrumental reflexivity in global public policy. Global Social Policy. 2023 Dec;23(3):481-498. Epub 2023 Jan 6. doi: 10.1177/14680181221145382 |
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Grek S, Tichenor M, Bandola-Gill J. Numbers as utopia: Sustainable Development Goals and the making of quantified futures. British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 2023 Nov 13. Epub 2023 Nov 13. doi: 10.1177/13691481231210385 |
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Tichenor M. Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures. Policy and Society. 2022 Dec 1;41(4):541-554. Epub 2022 Jul 14. doi: 10.1093/polsoc/puac023 |
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Tichenor M, Merry SE, Grek S, Bandola-Gill J. Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures. Policy and Society. 2022 Dec 1;41(4):431-444. Epub 2022 Apr 27. doi: 10.1093/polsoc/puac015 |
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Bandola-Gill J, Grek S, Tichenor M. Governing the Sustainable Development Goals: Quantification in Global Public Policy . 1st ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 165 p. (Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-03938-6 |
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Tichenor M, Winters J, Storeng KT, Bump JB, Gaudillierre JP, Gorsky M et al. Interrogating the World Bank's role in global health knowledge production, governance, and finance. Globalization and Health. 2021 Sept 19;17:110. doi: 10.1186/s12992-021-00761-w |
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Tichenor M. Metrics. In Stein F, editor, The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology. 1st ed. Open Knowledge Press (OKP). 2020. p. 1-16 doi: 10.29164/20metrics |
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Tichenor M. Essential universal health coverage needs local capacity development. The Lancet Global Health. 2020 Jun 1;8(6):e748-e749. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30224-2 |
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Ganguli-Mitra A, Young I, Engelmann L, Harper I, McCormack D, Marsland R et al. Segmenting communities as public health strategy: A view from the social sciences and humanities. Wellcome Open Research . 2020 May 26. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15975.1 |
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Tichenor M, Sridhar D. Metric partnerships: global burden of disease estimates within the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Wellcome Open Research . 2019 Feb 18;4:35. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15011.1 |
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Wenham C, Katz R, Birungi C, Boden L, Eccleston Turner M, Goston LO et al. Global Health Security and Universal Health Coverage: from a Marriage of Convenience to a Strategic, Effective Partnership . BMJ Global Health. 2019 Jan 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001145 |
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Tichenor M, Sridhar D. Universal health coverage, health systems strengthening, and the World Bank. British Medical Journal (BMJ). 2017 Aug 31;358:j3347. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j3347 |
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Tichenor M. Data Performativity, Performing Health Work: Malaria and Labor in Senegal. Medical Anthropology. 2017 May 1;36(5):436-448. Epub 2017 Apr 10. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2017.1316722 |
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Tichenor M. The Power of Data: Global Health Citizenship and the Senegalese Data Retention Strike. In Adams V, editor, Metrics: What Counts in Global Health. Duke University Press. 2016. p. 105-124. (Critical Global Health). doi: 10.1215/9780822374480-005 |
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