Jonathan Kuo is an MD/PhD student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Department of the History of Medicine. His academic work focuses on the history of health activism across the political spectrum in the twentieth-century Anglosphere and its global connections. He is particularly interested in how activist groups build coalitions across differences in race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and belief. His research more broadly explores the promises and perils of political change based on fluid markers of identity.

He has previously researched the history of secular non-medical exemptions to compulsory vaccination, the gendered construction of disease, and electronic medicine and medical devices in the US. His current project examines how knowledge from the human sciences shaped the early public health response to the HIV epidemic in the UK.

Jonathan graduated from UC Berkeley in 2022 with BAs in Rhetoric and Molecular and Cell Biology. He received an MSc with Distinction in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine from the University of Manchester in 2023 with the support of a Marshall Scholarship. He welcomes any inquiries from prospective students interested in medicine, history, and any combination thereof.