Maurizia Mezza

is a PhD candidate in medical anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on vaccine pharmacovigilance, the HPV vaccine in Colombia, vaccine manufacture institutions and epidemiology.

Articles

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How the sun was privatized

Vaccines at the mercy of markets

The rush to find a COVID-19 vaccine has resulted in myriad products rather than medical strategies. In the West, mostly private labs are behind what has become a precious commodity. How did public health and money become contractually tied to privately owned medicine?

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