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.

Dr Mary Dobson

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.