Megan Vaughan

Megan Vaughan is Professor of African History and Health at UCL, having previously held posts in Cambridge, Oxford and the City University New York. She is a historian and anthropologist who has worked extensively on health, nutrition, agriculture and environment in east/central and southern Africa and on the history of colonial medicine and psychiatry. She currently heads a Wellcome Trust funded research programme in the history of chronic disease in sub-Saharan Africa.

Megan Vaughan is Professor of African History and Health at UCL, having previously held posts in Cambridge, Oxford and the City University New York. She is a historian and anthropologist who has worked extensively on health, nutrition, agriculture and environment in east/central and southern Africa and on the history of colonial medicine and psychiatry. She currently heads a Wellcome Trust funded research programme in the history of chronic disease in sub-Saharan Africa. See less