Typhoidland: using the past to inform the present and future of typhoid control

Research team

• Dr Claas Kirchhelle, UCD School of History
• Dr Samantha Vanderslott, University of Oxford
• Dr Emily Webster, UCD School of History

Dr Kirchhelle conducted the research underlying Typhoidland. He curates the Typhoidland exhibitions with Dr Vanderslott. Dr Webster is research associate on the Typhoid, Cockles, and Terrorism project.

Collaborators

• UK (History of Science Museum/ Bodleian/ Oxford Museum): exhibitions on sanitation and vaccination.
• US (CDC Sencer Museum, Atlanta): exhibition on typhoid and carrier management (“Typhoid Mary”).
• India (St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore): exhibition on (post-)colonial typhoid control. Local lead: Dr Manjulika Vaz.
• Ireland (UCD, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, Dublin Library and City Archive): digital humanities exhibition on public health and bioterrorism.
• Nepal and Bangladesh (Patan Hospital / Child Health Research Foundation): health engagement.

Funding

• The New Venture Fund (2019) for the exhibition, research, and public engagement.
• The HEFCE Global Challenge Research Fund (2018) to organise an international, interdisciplinary workshop.
• AHRC-IRC Digital Humanities Initiative (2021-2024) for the Typhoid, Cockles, and Terrorism project.

Fairgrieve, D (corresponding); Holm, S; Howells, G; Kirchhelle, C; Vanderslott, S, (opens in a new window)In favour of a bespoke COVID-19 vaccines compensation scheme, Lancet Infectious Diseases (2021).

 Kirchhelle, C; Vanderslott, S (corresponding), (opens in a new window)The need for harmonised international guidelines ahead of COVID-19 human infection studies, Public Health Reviews 42 (2021).

 Kirchhelle, C, (opens in a new window)The Forgotten Typers. The Rise and Fall of Weimar Bacteriophage-Typing (1921-1935), Notes & Records. The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (2019).

 Vanderslott, S; Phillips, MT; Pitzer, V; Kirchhelle, C (corresponding), ‘(opens in a new window)Water And Filth: Re-evaluating The First Era Of Sanitary Typhoid Intervention’, Clinical Infectious Diseases 69 [Supplement 5: Making a Difference? The past, present, and future of typhoid control’] (2019).

 Kirchhelle, C (corresponding); Dyson, ZA; Dougan, G, (opens in a new window)The bio-social history of AMR, Clinical Infectious Diseases 69 [Supplement 5: Making a Difference? The past, present, and future of typhoid control’] (2019).

 Kirchhelle, C (corresponding); Vanderslott, S; Pollard, A, (opens in a new window)Typhoid: Past and Future, Clinical Infectious Diseases 69 [Supplement 5: Making a Difference? The past, present, and future of typhoid control’] (2019).