Lenore Manderson

Lenore Manderson is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her work is concerned with inequality, the social context of infectious and chronic diseases in Australia, Southeast and East Asia, and Africa, and increasingly, the environment. She is the author or editor of 28 books, and over 700 articles, book chapters and reports, including Surface Tensions (2011), Connected Lives (edited with Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, 2020), and Viral Loads (edited with Nancy J.Burke and Ayo Wahlberg, 2021). She was awarded the Society of Medical Anthropology Career Achievement Award in 2016, and in January 2020, she was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia.