Julia Hornberger
Julia Hornberger is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She earned her PhD from Utrecht University and has written extensively on policing in South Africa, including her first book Human Rights and Policing: The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Practice of Policing in Johannesburg. Based on several international research collaborations, her current research explores the intersections of security, markets, and health, focusing especially on the policing of fake medication and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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This is the story of how the World Health Organisation (WHO) came to partner with Interpol and the pharmaceutical industry to fight a war against fake drugs. This partnership took the form of a taskforce, the International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeit Taskforce (IMPACT), which contributed greatly to how counterfeit drugs became understood as a threat to […]
Why should the figure of the middleman matter for scholars of global health? The short answer is: they are impossible to avoid. The long answer is as follows: Throughout the twenty-first century, claims have circulated that the global pharmaceutical supply chain is awash with fakes, and these claims sparked our curiosity. For nearly a decade, […]
