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