Melissa Creary
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Summary
Melissa Creary is interested in the simultaneous constructions of race and science via the development of policy. She explores how patients, non-governmental organizations, and the Brazilian government, at state and federal levels, have contributed to the discourse of sickle cell disease (SCD) as a “black†disease, despite a prevailing cultural ideology of racial mixture. Her global health research provides critical analyses of the embodiment of policy via genetic and racial identities and a way of theorizing how embodied outcomes of accumulated injustice and exclusion inhibit the receipt of justice even via intentional, well-meaning, well-researched programs, policies, and technologies.