Examines how humanity has responded to the disease in the crucial second half of the twentieth century.
Jo Robertson (PhD, MA, Hons) worked on the International Leprosy Association's Global Project on the History of Leprosy at the University of Oxford, and conducted extensive research into the WHO leprosy archives at the University of Geneva. She most recently published on immigration, leprosy and nation. She now teaches casually in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit, University of Queensland.