Announcement of a 3-year PhD Fellowship on 
" Making the DOTS protocol for the treatment of tuberculosis"
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 researcher leading to a PhD in social
science to be defended at the EHESS (Paris). 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 coming into being and development of the
protocol of directly observed therapy, short course for tuberculosis
(DOTS), a protocol guiding the treatment of tuberculosis world-wide. It was
designed around 1990 and intended to control an epidemic of re-emergent
tuberculosis, connected to HIV, and to prevent the development of
(multi)drug resistance in patients who underwent treatment. The history of
DOTS is connected to a previous global disinvestment in tuberculosis care
by both industry and WHO and to the re-instalment of a specialised control
program by WHO in 1995. Its development included players like the
International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, the World Bank,
WHO and others. After its creation DOTS became modified in to DOTS+ and is
currently at the centre of the Stop TB strategy.
The PhD project is to be part of one of the strand “The return of
tuberculosis as a worldwide neglected disease: globalising the DOTS
regime” of the ERC project GLOBHEALTH. It is to be situated at CERMES3,
Villejuif/Paris and supervision will be offered by professors Jean-Paul
Gaudillière and Chris-toph Gradmann. The PhD Fellow will participate in
the doctoral program in history, anthropology and sociology of health at
Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales and in CERMES3 Global Health Seminars
in Paris. Travel funds for fieldwork in addition to salary will be
available.
A successful applicant should bring a qualification, preferably at master
level, in a historical discipline, anthropology or social science enabling
her or him to study the history of emergent global public health in the
20th century. Experience in archival work, conducting interviews and
excellent 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 project of between  and 10 pages. It is to
address subject, materials, methods, intended outcomes, dissemination and a
timeline for a project.
-	a piece of text 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 “Emergence of DOTS - 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