{"id":2783,"date":"2019-07-29T12:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/socialmed\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=2783"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:42:49","slug":"raul-necochea","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/socialmed\/directory\/raul-necochea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ra\u00fal Necochea L\u00f3pez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSc 2002, History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology<br \/>\nPhD 2010, History, McGill University<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: Roboto;color: #4f4f4f\">I obtained my Ph.D. in History from McGill University and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto\u2019s Dalla Lana School of Public Health before joining UNC. I am broadly interested in the history of medicine and science, sexual and reproductive health, and Latin America. I am committed to continue bringing non-U.S. voices and sources to bear on health and medical research in the U.S., to enrich and challenge the stories we tell about change and continuity in this country. By the same token, I am part of several networks of Latin American scholars endeavoring to place health and medicine at the forefront of public attention, especially as President of the<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aphcts.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #007fae\">Peruvian Society for History of Science, Technology and Health<\/span><\/a>. I wrote A History of Family Planning in Twentieth Century Peru (UNC Press, 2014), and La Planificaci\u00f3n Familiar en el Per\u00fa del Siglo XX (IEP and United Nations Fund for Population Activities, 2016). I also co-edited Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America (Duke, 2020). Presently, I am writing a book about the history of cancer care in the Andean region and I direct and teach the Social and Health Systems course for first year medical students at the UNC School of Medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSc 2002, History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology PhD 2010, History, McGill University I obtained my Ph.D. in History from McGill University and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto\u2019s Dalla Lana School of Public Health before joining UNC. 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