Vivek Neelakantan
Vivek Neelakantan received a PhD in History of Medicine from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2014. His PhD thesis based extensively on archival research at the WHO and in Indonesia critically examined Indonesias relations with the WHO during the Cold War and the appropriation and transformation of social medicine by nationalist physicians. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM). His current research, supported by a Rockefeller Foundation Grant-In-Aid, and a grant from the Truman Library, examines the centrality of medicine to postcolonial science in Indonesia and the Philippines.
Vivek Neelakantan
Vivek Neelakantan received a PhD in History of Medicine from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2014. His PhD thesis based extensively on archival research at the WHO and in Indonesia critically examined Indonesias relations with the WHO during the Cold War and the appropriation and transformation of social medicine by nationalist physicians. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM). His current research, supported by a Rockefeller Foundation Grant-In-Aid, and a grant from the Truman Library, examines the centrality of medicine to postcolonial science in Indonesia and the Philippines.
