I am a historian medicine specialising in modern and contemporary history, politics and political economy of international health. My research focuses on infectious disease, accessing of essential medicine, and emerging powers in global health. I am currently based at Humanitarian and Crisis Response Institute at the University of Manchester, working for the Wellcome Trust-funded project "Developing Humanitarian Medicine: from Alma-Ata to Bio-tech, a History of Norms, Knowledge Production and Care (1978-2020)”. As part of the project, I examinie the recognition of artemisinin as standard clinical treatment for malaria and the prequalification and procurement of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs).  The research studies how life-saving treatments, particularly, indigenous knowledge, move from discovery to becoming standard care in medical humanitarian aids, including the complex regulatory, quality assurance, and procurement challenges that determine access to essential medicines.