BIOGRAPHY

Yi-Tang Lin is a historian of science, technology, and medicine. She is a SNSF Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Geneva. Starting from February 2023, she will be a PRIMA Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich. Her first book, Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World , 1917-60 (Cambridge UP, forthcoming in October), mobilizes archival material from three continents to investigate efforts by public health schools, philanthropic foundations and international organizations to turn numbers into an international language for health, and how China and Taiwan reacted to this drive towards quantification.