2022.08: If You've Imagined It, It's Happening

Dr. Emily Vasquez

Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Sociology

University of Illinois at Chicago

Publications by Dr. Vasquez

• Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America, edited with Amaya G. Perez-Brumer and Richard Parker, 2020.

• "Redefining Diabetes Risk in Mexico," in American Anthropologist, 122:3 (2020): 670-671.

• "Mexican Samples, Latino DNA: The Trajectory of a National Genome in Transnational Science," with Vivette García Deister in Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 5 (2019): 107-134.

• "Populations of Cognition: Practices of Inquiry into Human Populations in Latin America," with Edna Suárez-Díaz and Vivette García-Deister, in Perspectives on Science, 25:5 (2017): 551–563.

Program to gather genomic data on 1+ million Americans

All of US

Articles

• Precision Public Health and Precision Medicine: Two Peas in a Pod

• Pros and cons of precision public health

• News release of the Precision Public Health Initiative

• What US government spent to facilitate Covid vaccine

• Errata (maybe): Pfizer claims it did not accept any R&D money to develop its vaccine, but it did make a deal to sell the US government millions of doses before they had a working vaccine.

• Marking up prices for vaccines funded by the government

Websites of Interest

• Carlos Slim Foundation

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

• Genetic Mapping Fact Sheet

• Information about Operation Warp Speed