Mandisa Mbali

Mandisa Mbali is a postdoctoral fellow in the History of Medicine at Yale University. She recently obtained her doctorate at the University of Oxford, where she was a South African Rhodes Scholar. Her doctoral thesis is entitled “The New Struggle: A History of AIDS Activism in South Africa, 1982–2003.” Mbali has also published several scholarly articles dealing with former President Mbeki’s adoption of AIDS dissidence and the politics of gender and sexuality in South African AIDS activism.