Alice Street

My research addresses issues of health system strengthening, global health technologies, hospital ethnography, state building and the social life of diagnosis. My first book, Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital, published by Duke University Press, was an ethnography of a public hospital in Papua New Guinea Research and explores the ways in which people engage with biomedical technologies in conditions of uncertainty and precariousness. More recently, research funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC has focused on health systems strengthening, health management, and off-grid health infrastructures. I am currently PI of a European Research Council funded project on diagnostic devices in global health. The DiaDev project explores the emergent role that point-of-care diagnostic devices are playing in the transformation of global health partnerships and national health systems in low and middle-income countries. I have a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. My research has taken place in Papua New Guinea, India and Sierra Leone.