Equality Day lecture: The life and afterlives of Rosalind Franklin - a wronged heroine of science?

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Heini Hakosalo is Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor) in History of Sciences and Ideas, University of Oulu. She specialises in modern and contemporary history of medicine and health. Her interests include gender and science, the histories of infectious diseases and epidemiological knowledge-production, as well as the relationship between health and the built environment. Her publications include Heini Hakosalo, Katariina Parhi and Annukka Sailo (eds.), Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology: Patterns, Populations and Pathologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and Heini Hakosalo and Esa Ruuskanen (eds.), In Pursuit of Healthy Environments: Lessons from Historical Cases on the Environment-Health Nexus (Routledge, 2021).

Event is organized by the I4WORLD (Imaging and Characterisation for a Sustainable World) doctoral programme co-funded by the European Union.