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On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, the IAS will host the first Summer term InReach seminar, featuring Professor Roberta Bivins. Professor Bivins' current research focuses on the impacts of health technologies and medical surveillance in the UK, examining how standards for technological interventions are shaped. Her work includes exploring DNA profiling as a border surveillance technology and has led to the concept of "biomedical marginalisation." This concept informs her project on "data inequality" in healthcare, spanning from clinical trials to health surveillance technologies, emphasising interdisciplinary approaches that connect history, data, and health sciences. Details of Roberta's talk can be found below:

Unimagined Communities, Untold Stories: Ethnicity and Innovation in UK Biomedicine

Professor Roberta Bivins

Wednesday 11^th June 2025
13.00- 14.00 | IAS Seminar Room C0.02

"Contemporary discussions about the persistence of health inequality paint a gloomy picture of the intersection between biomedicine and marginalised ethnic communities. In history and in policy, attention has — justifiably — focused on mutual misunderstandings, mistrust and even mistreatment of patients and ethnic communities. This talk will highlight a different strand of this troubled history, one in which scientists and clinicians work with ethnic communities to power innovation and positive change not just for those who are marginalised from mainstream biomedicine, but for the majority community as well. From chorionic villus sampling to DNA profiling, I will look at the unimagined communities of innovators who have transformed biomedicine in Britain."

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