In 1976, the Feris Foundation of America established the Gallatin Fellowships in honour of Geneva native and distinguished US statesman Albert Gallatin to support advanced doctoral candidates to complete their studies either at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (for US students) or at a recognised US university (for Graduate Institute students).

This year the Gallatin Fellowship was awarded to Rosie Sims, a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Sociology, who will spend the 2019-2020 academic year at the Institute for Society and Genetics (ISG) at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to finish writing her doctoral thesis. Her project "Towards a Brave New World: New Configurations of Virus, Vector, and Human Relations in Colombia" focuses on a global health intervention that is releasing bioengineered mosquitos across the city of Medellín, Colombia, as a public health technology against diseases such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya.

Based on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork following the various actors involved in making the natural 'safe' or 'acceptable' to live with, this research explores how new technologies of vector control depart from existing rationales of eradication and embody the radically different idea of 'living with' mosquitos. Responding to Donna Haraway’s (2016) invitation to 'stay with the trouble' involves a reconfiguration of virus-human-mosquito relations, and this thesis examines how an ambivalent ethics of coexistence emerges in these spaces of global health intervention.