Ria is a Lecturer in the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong where she coordinates the History of Medicine programme. With a background in infectious disease research, she is particularly interested in the complex and dynamic, sociocultural, ecological, historical, technological, and medico-scientific determinants of disease emergence and control. During the recent pandemic she curated a Covid-19 Archive to document the outbreak. Her ongoing research includes a book on the history of malaria in Hong Kong, an interdisciplinary project on mixed medicine cultures and curation of postwar public health posters for exhibition in Hong Kong. 

https://mehu.hku.hk/academic-staff/#RiaSinha

https://cmel.hku.hk/dr-ria-sinha/

Research Interests

• Infectious diseases
• Anti-disease technologies
• History of Health and Medicine
• Hong Kong Medical History

PUBLICATIONS

Book: Hong Kong Fever forthcoming with HKU Press.

‘Superbugs’: Protecting Hong Kong from the rising threat of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Ming Pao am730 March 2024.

The Nuisance of Mosquito Bites and the Risk of Vector-Borne Diseases in Hong Kong. Ming Pao am730  February 2024.

Meek L., Haruyama J., Sinha R. 2020. Going Viral in Hong Kong. Anthropology News March.

Peckham R., Sinha R. 2019. Anarchitectures of Health: Futures for the Biomedical Drone. Global Public Health 14:8: 1204-1219.

Sinha R. 2018. Fatal Island: Malaria in Hong Kong. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong 58: 55-80.

Peckham R., Sinha R. 2018. Satellites

TEACHING AND COURSES TAUGHT

• HIST7009 Health and Medicine in Hong Kong (MA)