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Professor Sullivan’s current research explores international clinical volunteerism in the global South. Explored empirically in Tanzania across five fields seasons since 2011, including over 1600 hours of observations of international volunteer-Tanzanias interactions in health facilities, the project examines how the for-profit voluntourism industry maps onto the under-resourced health system in Tanzania, and to what effect for international volunteers, Tanzanian health professionals, patients, and the institutions more broadly.
Her next project examines the U.S. health sector, and in particular the economic, environmental, microbial, administrative, and institutional effects of the turn towards disposable and limited-use medical implements.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Anthropology, PhD, University of Florida
… → 2011
Anthropology, MA, University of Florida
… → 2006
African & African American Studies, MA, SUNY Albany
… → 2003
Anthropology & History, BA, Honours, University of Victoria
… → 2000
Research interests keywords
- Global health
- Health sector reform
- Transnational governance and policy
- International volunteerism
- Institutional cultures and bureaucracy
- Gender and sexuality
- Eastern Africa
- United States
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Pushpin memoir: Making meaning out of murder
Sullivan, N., Mar 2025, In: American Anthropologist. 127, 1, p. 158-167 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hospital side hustles: Funding conundrums and perverse incentives in Tanzania's publicly-funded health sector
Marten, M. G. & Sullivan, N., Jan 2020, In: Social Science and Medicine. 244, 112662.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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'Like a real hospital': Imagining hospital futures through homegrown public-private partnerships in Tanzania
Sullivan, N., Jan 1 2020, In: Africa. 90, 1, p. 209-228 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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International clinical volunteering in Tanzania: A postcolonial analysis of a Global Health business
Sullivan, N., Mar 4 2018, In: Global Public Health. 13, 3, p. 310-324 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multiple accountabilities: development cooperation, transparency, and the politics of unknowing in Tanzania’s health sector
Sullivan, N., Mar 15 2017, In: Critical Public Health. 27, 2, p. 193-204 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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