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With funding from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Susan’s current research projects, entitled “Finance Matters: a study of venture investment in humanitarian aid financing” and “Following the Money: Emerging Forms of value in humanitarian aid financing”, analyze anticipatory and speculative technologies of care. Specifically, she is looking at value and risk mediations in humanitarian data and financing mechanisms.
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Susan Erikson
is an Associate Professor of Global Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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