Professor Dora Vargha is Professor of History and Medical Humanities based at the Department of History and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter, which is a WHO Collaborating Centre for Cultural Contexts of Health.

From September 2021, she will be jointly based at Humboldt University, Berlin as senior researcher. Her work spans from the politics of epidemic management to public health systems and access to therapeutics.