Bio

Johanna Hood is an assistant professor at Roskilde University’s Institute for Society and Globalization, Denmark. Johanna’s research focuses on the role of Chinese celebrities in politics and public health; the commodification and shortages of blood and its donation in China; and the impact of local conceptions about race and ethnicity on Chinese media and public understandings of illness. Johanna is the author of HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China (Routledge, 2011) and a variety of journal articles and chapters in edited volumes on celebrity, inequality, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. She was a postdoctoral fellow at CIW before joining The Department of Society and Globalisation as Roskilde University.