Historian of medicine admitted as Affiliated Scholar at St John’s
Dr Dobson has held a number of prestigious Research Fellowships
Dr Mary Dobson has been made a member of St John’s College.
The historian of medicine has wide ranging interests in global health. She read Geography at St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, and was awarded a BA with First Class honours in 1976 and a DPhil at Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1982.
She is the author of numerous publications ranging from academic articles and monographs to popular science and history.
Dr Dobson has held a number of prestigious Research Fellowships (including a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard University) and was Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford.