Announcement of a 2-year Postdoc Fellowship on 
"Connecting the DOTS: Drug resistant tuberculosis and its control in India
through the RNTCP 1990 to present"
Funded by: ERC project 'GLOBHEALTH'
To be based at CERMES3 (UMR CNRS, Inserm, EHESS, UPD), Villejuif/Paris,
France
CERMES3 is announcing a position as a postdoc researcher. It is financed
through the ERC project GLOBHEALTH “From international to global.
Knowledge and diseases and the post-war government of health”. 
The project centres on the contemporary history of tuberculosis in India
since about 1990. In this period a well established tradition of
tuberculosis-care meet with the perceived re-emergence of that condition,
the challenge of multi drug resistant tuberculosis and of novel global
health initiatives for TB-control, driven by the association of AIDS and
(drug resistant) tuberculosis. The project will explore which influ-ence
the coming into being and development of the protocol of directly observed
therapy, short course for tuberculosis (DOTS from 1995, later DOTS+ and
currently Stop-TB) had in India where a national TB program had already
been established in the 1960s and how the latter was reformed into a
revised program (RNTCP) from 1992 onward in relation with the DOTS strategy
supported by WHO and the World Bank. Critical questions are thus to
understand how the challenge of MDR-TB met and how local traditions of TB
care in India were met and negotiated against global health initiatives.
Such questions will be pursued through historical studies aiming at the
national level as well as local initiatives.
The postdoc project is to be part of one of the strand “The return of
tuberculosis as a worldwide ne-glected disease: globalising the DOTS
regime” of the ERC project GLOBHEALTH. The other two pro-jects in the
strand cover African histories and the history of DOTS in global health.
The postdoc-position is to be situated at CERMES3, Villejuif/Paris and
research will be pursued in collaboration with professors Jean-Paul
Gaudillière and Christoph Gradmann. Funds for fieldwork and participation
to international workshops will be provided. 
A successful applicant should bring a qualification, at PhD level or
equivalent, in a historical discipline, anthropology or social science
enabling her or him to study the history of Indian tuberculosis care in its
global context the 20th century. Experience in archival work, in the
conduct of interviews and an excel-lent mastery of written and oral English
are required.
An application should contain the following:
-	a CV
-	a letter of motivation
-	a draft of a prospective post-doc project of between 7 and 10 pages. It
should address subject, materials, methods, intended outcomes,
dissemination and a timeline for a project.
-	a piece of writing that the applicant deems relevant to the project.

?	Information on CERMES3 is available through http://www.cermes3.fr. 
?	Description of the ERC Project is accessible through http://globhealth.vjf.cnrs.fr  


The complete applications to be sent to gaudilli@vjf.cnrs.fr or christoph.gradmann@medisin.uio.no.
Please indicate “DOTS-India-GLOBHEALTH” in the subject line.
Deadline for applications is June 30, 2015

Selection will completed in July 2015 and the successful candidate is
expected to start employment by the 
beginning of October 2015