Laura Mamo, Ph.D.

Laura Mamo's research examines issues of knowledge and power, health and inequality, and sexuality, gender, race and social justice.

Bio:  

Laura Mamo is the Health Equity Institute Professor of Public Health. Her work lies at the intersection of medical sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine. Her research and teaching focus on sexuality and its politics in medicine, science, and health discourse, practice, and resistance. Mamo is the author of the book Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention (University of Chicago Press, 2023); Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience (Duke University Press, 2007); co-author of Living Green: Communities that Sustain (New Society Press, 2010); and co-editor of Biomedicalization Studies: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness and U.S. Biomedicine(Duke University Press, 2010). Mamo is the co-founder of The Beyond Bullying Project, a multimedia school-based queer sexuality and gender project with Jessica Fields, Jen Gilbert and Nancy Lesko. Mamo’s research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Mamo earned her PhD in 2002 from UCSF and her BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She joined the faculty at SFSU as a Health Equity Professor of Public Health in 2010 following appointments as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.