Nora Kenworthy, PhD
Nora Kenworthy, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Washington Bothell
Nora Kenworthy is a writer, professor, and public health expert whose work examines how politics, technology, and inequality affect health. She is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare (MIT Press, 2024), and of the award-winning ethnography, Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho (Vanderbilt University Press, 2017). She is the co-editor of two additional books, Case Studies on Corporations and Global Health Governance: Impacts, Influence and Accountability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), and HIV Scale-up and the Politics of Global Health (Routledge, 2015). Kenworthy's work has appeared in scholarly journals such as the American Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, PLOS One, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly as well as media outlets such as The Washington Post, Scientific American, and The Los Angeles Times. Currently, Kenworthy is an Associate Professor of Health Studies at the University of Washington (UW) Bothell, and she also holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Anthropology and Global Health at UW Seattle . She received a PhD and MA from Columbia University and a BA from Williams College.
Nora Kenworthy is a writer, professor, and public health expert whose work examines how politics, technology, and inequality affect health. She is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare (MIT Press, 2024), and of the award-winning ethnography, Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho (Vanderbilt University Press, 2017). She is the co-editor of two additional books, Case Studies on Corporations and Global Health Governance: Impacts, Influence and Accountability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), and HIV Scale-up and the Politics of Global Health (Routledge, 2015). Kenworthy's work has appeared in scholarly journals such as the American Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, PLOS One, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly as well as media outlets such as The Washington Post, Scientific American, and The Los Angeles Times. Currently, Kenworthy is an Associate Professor of Health Studies at the University of Washington (UW) Bothell, and she also holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Anthropology and Global Health at UW Seattle . She received a PhD and MA from Columbia University and a BA from Williams College.
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