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Lilia Scudamore is a researcher at the Indian Ocean World Centre and the Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy at McGill University. She holds an MA in History from McGill, where her thesis explored tuberculosis policy and public healthcare funding in the early 20th-century United States. Her work also examines racialized constructions of TB in the Indian Ocean World. She has been awarded the C.C. Bayley Prize in History, the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress Graduate Merit Award, and the Building 21 BLUE Fellowship.
Hailing from a background in history, Lilia’s work contextualizes contemporary TB discourse, policy, and healthcare delivery challenges with the hope of using past insights to inform innovative research and responses today.
