Jennifer Fraser
Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity
Email: jennifer.fraser@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
- Health History
- Global Health
- Gender & Women's Health
- Science & Technology Studies
- Colonialism
- Public Health
- Knowledge Mobilization
Education & Academic Appointments:
BA Hons University of Guelph
MA University of Toronto
PhD University of Toronto
Associated Medical Services Postdoctoral Fellow, Vancouver Island University
Research Associate, King’s College London
Knowledge Mobilization Fellow, University of Birmingham
Bio:
Jennifer Fraser is an interdisciplinary historian of health and medicine with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of research, policy, and public engagement. Her research explores how health inequalities are historically produced, with a particular focus on the social, political and technological geographies of cancer and the history of reproductive health. In 2025 she was a co-recipient of the William Bynum Essay prize for best early career submission to Medical History.
Selected Publications:
Jennifer Fraser, Thandeka Cochrane and Lily Mahdavi, “75 Years of Cancer Research in Africa,” American Journal of Public Health (22 October 2026): e1-e11.
Thandeka Cochrane and Jennifer Fraser. “Meticulous Records: Paper Technologies, Political Worlds and the Making of Epidemiological Data in 1970s Uganda,” Medical History 15 May 2026 *Recipient of the William Bynum Essay Prize
Jennifer Crane, Sydney Calkin, Maria Fannin, Jennifer Fraser, Cordelia Freeman, Josie Hamper, Carolin Schurr, Laura Perler, and Ellie Shipman, “Lively and Unstable Implosions: (Re)productive Objects as Experiments in Ad Hoc Archives,” Geohumanities 3 June 2026.
Jennifer Fraser and Noah Stemeroff “Imagination and Creativity in Times of Crisis,” The Oxford Handbook on Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity, edited by Amy Kind and Julia Langkau. University of Oxford Press, 2026.
Shagufta Bhangu, Nickolas Surawy Stepney, Henry Llewellyn, Jennifer Fraser, Thandeka Cochrane, Philip Jagessar, David Reubi, and Carlo Caduff, “Provincializing Global Oncology,” BMJ Global Health 23 November 2025.
Jennifer Fraser, Thandeka Cochrane, and David Reubi, “The Model Multiple: Representing Cancer in Sub Saharan Africa,” History of the Human Sciences (2024): 1-24.
Jennifer Fraser. “Light Pollution: Auroral Displays, Space Physics and Epidemiological Imaginings of Inuit Cancer,” in Patterns, Populations and Pathologies: Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology, edited by Heini Hakosalo, Katariina Parhi and Annukka Sailo. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.
Jennifer Fraser. “‘Seizing the Means to Reproduction?’: The Colonial History of the Cytopipette.” Canadian Bulletin for Medical History 38, no. 1 (2021): 128-176. *Shortlisted for Georgina Feldberg Memorial Student Award in the History of Health & Medicine
Jennifer Fraser. “Seeing (Infra)red: Epidemiology, Extraction, and the Birth of Breast Thermography.” Technology & Culture 62, no. 3 (2021): 709-740.
Jennifer Fraser. “Rendering Inuit Cancer ‘Visible’: Autopsy, Pathology and Nosology in Arctic Cancer Research.” Science in Context 33, no. 3 (2020): 195-225.
Jennifer Fraser. “Hot Bodies; Cold War: The Forgotten History of Breast Thermography” Canadian Medical Association Journal 189, no.15 (2017): E573-E575.