Yaming You

Fellow, von der Heyden Global Fellows 2025-26

Yaming You is a 5th-year PhD candidate from Duke History Department. Her work focuses on the history of medicine, pharmaceuticals, and public health; environmental history; and the Communist Revolution in twentieth-century China. She is currently working on her dissertation titled “The Syringe Body: A Biography of Injection in Modern China.” 

You's focus on history of medicine and pharmacy rethinks historical attempts to provide equitable healthcare and pharmaceutical access to impoverished regions in Communist China from 1940s to 1970s.