Emily Harrison

Emily Harrison is a PhD candidate in the History of Science at Harvard University, where her work is oriented on health sciences. Her current project focuses on infant mortality to analyze globalized interactions at the intersection of health and development in the second half of the twentieth century. The narrative of the project follows an individual named Leona Baumgartner, an expert in infant mortality reduction and an important but marginal actor in health and development, through select local sites among which techniques and technologies to address infant mortality are being produced, circulated, and consumed. Harrison holds a prior Masters degree from the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health and Population and a Bachelors degree in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard College.