Early Career Researcher; UNC Project-China
Qingyan Ma is a medical anthropologist who has been conducting anthropological research on contemporary China for over ten years. Dr. Ma received a PhD in anthropology from Temple University (January 2014). Her dissertation research is on the transformation of rural public health in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province with a focus on reproductive risk among ethnic minority women. She also received an MA in medical anthropology from Sun Yat-sen University, for which she conducted field research in Guangdong Provincial Hospital of TCM to explore the sociocultural construction of TCM in 2005. Qingyan is currently an Early Career Researcher for the NIH funded project on HIV cure. She is working with Dr. Joseph Tucker and Dr. Weiping Cai on UNC Project-China. Her research is based at the Guangzhou Eighth People’s Hospital to study the discourses and knowledge of HIV/AIDS risk across the board and how they affect individual medical experience and personal well-being as well as the unintended consequences of upcoming HIV cure research, globalization and consumption on individual health.
Blog posts
- Perceptions of HIV cure among people living with HIV in Guangzhou, China: a qualitative study
- From “Cured” to “Cure”: Commentary on Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science
- A TCM cure for malaria, a Nobel Prize, and an HIV cure
- The 2015 Guangzhou HIV Cure Symposium
- China Steps Up Investment in HIV Cure Research, Supporting 2M USD Gene Editing in Search of an HIV Cure in Shenzhen
- From Cancer Cure to HIV Cure
- HIV Cure Research in China: An Interview with Dr. Linghua Li
- A Sociocultural Reading of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in China and HIV Cure
- Beijing HIV/AIDS Conference
