Anne-Emanuelle Birn (BA, Harvard; MA, University of Canterbury, NZ; ScD Johns Hopkins) is Professor of Critical Development Studies and Global Health at the University of Toronto. Her research explores the history and political economy of international/global health, focusing on Latin America. Her books include: Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico;  Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home; Oxford’s Textbook of Global Health; and the forthcoming Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America. She was recognized among the top 100 Women Leaders in Global Health and served as Canada Research Chair in International Health (2003-2013).