Valentina Parisi, Ph.D., M.S., MPH

Valentina Parisi earned her Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She has interdisciplinary training in public health and history, with an emphasis on qualitative research methodologies, public health history, and social and cultural histories of medicine and science. Prior to her doctoral degree, she completed master’s degrees in interdisciplinary studies (with a focus in pathobiology and laboratory research) and public health, as well as a bachelor’s degree in anthropology.

Her current areas of research are public health history and global history of science and technology. Her work explores the history of influenza research, control, and management in the United States during the twentieth century, with attention to the politics of pandemic influenza “preparedness” and surveillance before and during the Cold War era.