Kari Lancaster

Kari is Professor in Sociology and University Research Leader – Health, Science & Planetary Change, at Goldsmiths. She also holds honorary appointments at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Burnet Institute. Informed by science and technology studies, her work focuses on how science is done, and how knowledge in and of health is made and challenged, in times of change, to produce insights into the governance of ‘crisis’, health, and dis-ease in the twenty-first century.

Kari's current research explores the complex interfaces of evidence and intervention, especially in relation to drugs, infectious disease, viral elimination, and outbreak. She is undertaking various projects examining technologies of epidemic intelligence (including modelling and wastewater analysis), the elimination of hepatitis C and HIV, Long Covid care and recovery, and the effects of harm reduction and treatment technologies.

Kari is an Editor of Science, Technology & Human Values.