This event examines the long and complex history of medical experimentation and testing in Africa during the French colonial era with two leading historians of French colonial public health policy. They will explore the social and scientific history of French vaccine research and testing in Africa and its implications for current vaccine developments. Each speaker will give brief introductory remarks followed by a conversation with moderator Kathryn Kleppinger, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and International Affairs, and author of Branding the Beur Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France, 1983-2013. There will also be time for discussion with participants.