Melissa Creary

Melissa Creary is an interdisciplinary (public health, science and technology studies, medical anthropology, bioethics) social scientist who has worked with the sickle cell community as a scientist, policy maker, and public health researcher for over 20 years. Her primary research interests include how science, culture, and policy intersect, particularly around ethical, legal, and social concerns (ELSI). Her work provides critical analyses of the embodiment of policy via genetic and racial identities and has important implications for the development of a shared language for growing global research agendas, policy development, patient diagnosis, and health care provision. She is interested in the simultaneous constructions of race and science via the development of policy and what the bioethical implications are of those policies and interrogates broadly how inclusion and knowledge production are at odds with structural and societal barriers.