He is currently writing a book manuscript, Translating Sweetness: Recruiting Race and Risk in Type 2 Diabetes Research, an ethnographic recounting of three distinct, successive, and interrelated technological moments between 2008-2012 – clinical drug trial, diabetes risk prediction technology, and genomic research, respectively, when participatory inclusion of African-descent research subjects and researchers became increasingly important. Doucet-Battle is affiliated with the Science and Justice Research Center and the Race, Genomics, and Media Working Group at UC Santa Cruz, and is a member of the Center for Translational Genomic Research Working Group at the University of California, San Francisco.Retro Policies and Ongoing Fights: Thinking the Present through HIV Activisms Then and Now