Guillaume Lachenal
I conduct research in the field of global health, at the intersection of biology, data analysis and STS.
Researcher
Guillaume Lachenal is a University Professor of History, accredited to supervise PhD theses. He joins the médialab to develop research in the emerging field of planetary health—an interdisciplinary space focused on the relationships between human health, environmental change, and global social and political issues—by experimenting with methods at the intersection of biology, data analysis, and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
An alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure and an agrégé in life and earth sciences, he was previously a lecturer at Université Paris Diderot and a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His primary research has focused on the history and anthropology of epidemics, medicine, and public health in colonial and post-colonial African contexts.
He is the author of Le médicament qui devait sauver l’Afrique (La Découverte, 2014; English translation: The Lomidine Files, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) and Le médecin qui voulut être roi (Seuil, 2017; English translation: The Doctor Who Would Be King, Duke University Press, 2022).