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San Francisco State University

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Laura Mamo is the Health Equity Institute Professor of Public Health in the Department of Public Health at San Francisco State University, where she advances Health Science through her work at the intersection of medical sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine. She earned her PhD in 2002 from the University of California, San Francisco, and her BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mamo joined the San Francisco State University faculty in 2010 as Health Equity Professor of Public Health, following her appointments as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research and teaching center on sexuality and its politics in medicine, science, and health discourse, practice, and resistance, exploring the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine as they shape population health, health equity, knowledge, power, inequality, and social justice.