Allegra Molkenthin

PhD Student

Global


I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. I focus on the history of public health and medicine, particularly infectious disease and colonial epidemic and pandemic response in the 18-19th centuries. My interest in interdisciplinary work and my experiences in global public health, emergency response, and laboratory systems strengthening inform my historical questions and methods.  


Research Interests

  • Public Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Colonialism
  • Atlantic World
  • Environmental History
  • Blue Humanities
  • Public History

Awards

MPH Capstone Award, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (2025)


Publications

Lucy A. Perrone et al., Chapter 16 - Global laboratory systems, Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond, Academic Press, 2024, Pages 287-305, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90945-7.00009-9.


Education

MPH, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (2025)

BA in History and Global Health, Middlebury College (2020)