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Carolina Mayes is a Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. She works on Lukas Engelmann's ERC-funded project titled 'The Epidemiological Revolution: History and Epidemiological Reasoning in the Twentieth Century,' which runs from January 2021 to December 2025. Carolina completed her PhD in Sociology with a focus on Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her research broadly explores how scientific expertise differs among various forms of knowledge and how scientific and technological innovations interact with social life. She has a particular interest in the development, introduction, and circulation of new medical healthcare technologies, especially those that utilize big data and genomics. Her doctoral research focused on the history of genetic epidemiology and the contemporary translations of personalized precision health research, using case studies such as the MyCode initiative at Geisinger Health in Pennsylvania and the National Institutes of Health's Research Program. During her graduate studies, she participated in the Biomedical Citizen Science Working Group, which was funded by the UCSD Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Collaboratory Award. Carolina has contributed to open access publications resulting from her research and has previously worked on the Science Islam Video Portal at Hampshire College, focusing on data analytics to improve website engagement.
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