Outside the Johannesburg High Court, health activists demonstrate during case on silicosis and TB in mining sector (October 2015)
Articles
2024 Halabi S, Gostin L, Egbokhare O, Kavanagh MM. “Global Health Law for a Safer and Fairer World.” New England Journal of Medicine. (download)
2024 Fischer SE, Vitale L, Agutu AL, Kavanagh M. “Intellectual Property and the Politics of Public Good in COVID-19: Law, institutions, and ideas during TRIPS waiver negotiations at the WTO.” Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law. (download)
2023 Kavanagh M, Wenham C, Nyukuri E, Helfer LR, Massard da Fonseca E, Maleche A, Halabi S, Radhakrishnan A, Waris A. “Increasing Compliance with International Pandemic Law: international relations and new global health agreements.” The Lancet. 402 (10407): 1097. (download)
2023 Policar S, Sharp A, Isidor Hyppolite J, Alfred GM, Steide E, Lucien L, Ledan N, Kavanagh M. “Drivers of HIV treatment interruption: Early findings from community-led monitoring program in Haiti.” PLOS One 5;18(12): e0295023.
2023 6. Lamontagne E, Nyako HY, Enemo A, Sunday A, Muhammad A, Abdullah RM, Okiwu H, Undelikwo V, Ogbozor P, Amusan O, Alaba O, Undelikwo G, Takpa K, Ashefor G, Kavanagh M, Foláyan MNO. “The health inequity and socioeconomic inequality faced by adolescent girls and women on the move living with or at high risk of HIV infection, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.” BMJ Global Health. 21;8(12): e012116.
2023 Kavanagh M, Singh R. “Legal Paradigms and the Politics of Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access.” In Sunder M. Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures Cambridge University Press. [Forthcoming].
2023 Kavanagh M, Singh R. “Vaccine Politics: Law and Inequality in the Pandemic Response to COVID-19.” Global Policy. 14 (2): 229-246. (download)
2023 Ataguba J, Birungi C, Cunal S, Kavanagh M. “Income inequality and pandemics: insights from HIV/AIDS and COVID-19—a multicountry observational study.” BMJ Global Health. (download)
2023 Lyons CE, Twahirwa Rwema JO, Makofane K, Diof D, Njindam I, ... Kavanagh M, Millet G, Beyrer C, Murray S, Baral S. “Associations between punitive policies and legal barriers to consensual same-sex sexual acts and HIV among gay men and other men who have sex with men in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry, respondent-driven sampling survey.” The Lancet HIV. 10 (3): 186-194. (download)
2022 Torres-Rueda S, Terris-Prestholt F, Gafos M, Indravudh P, Giddings R, Fiammetta B, Quaife M, Osborne C, Kavanagh M, Godfrey-Faussett P, Medley G, Malhotra S. “Health Economics Research on Non-Surgical, Biomedical HIV Prevention: Identifying Gaps and Proposing a Way Forward.” Pharmacoeconomics. 41(7): 787.
2022. Byanyima W, Lauterbach K, Kavanagh M. “Community Pandemic Response: The Importance of Action Led by Communities and the Public Sector.” The Lancet. 401 (10373): 253.
2021 Kavanagh M, Agbla SC, Pillinger M, Joy M, Case A, Erondu N, Aneja K, Erkkola T, Graeden E. “Law, Criminalisation and HIV in the World: Have countries that criminalise achieved more or less successful AIDS pandemic response?” BMJ Global Health. 6: e006315. (download)
2021 Kavanagh M, Gostin LO, Sunder M. “Sharing Technology and Vaccine Doses to Address Global Vaccine Inequity and End the COVID-19 Pandemic.” JAMA. 326 (3): 219. (download)
2021 Oh J, Lee H-Y, Khuong QL,... Kavanagh M... Gostin O. “Mobility Restrictions Were Associated With Reductions in COVID-19 Incidence Early in the Pandemic: evidence from a real-time evaluation in 34 countries.” Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 13717. (download)
2021 Wenham C, Kavanagh M, Torres I, Yamey G. “Preparing for the Next Pandemic.” BMJ . 373: n1295.
2021 Kavanagh M, Singh R, Pillinger M. “Playing Politics: The World Health Organization’s Response to COVID-19.” In: Greer, SL et al. Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 35. (download)
2021 Wenham C, Kavanagh M, Phelan A, Rushton S, Voss M, Halabi S, Eccleston-Turner M, Pillinger M. “Problems with traffic light approaches to public health emergencies of international concern.” The Lancet. 397(10287):1856.
2021 Kavanagh M, Parish K, Gupta S. “Drivers of Health Policy Adoption: A Political Economy of HIV Treatment Policy.” Policy & Politics. 49 (2): 343. (download)
2021 Kavanagh M, Norato L, Friedman E, Armbrister A. “Planning for Health Equity in the Americas: An Analysis of National Health Plans.” Pan-American Journal of Public Health. 45: e29. (download)
Español: “Planificación para la equidad en la salud en la Región de las Américas: análisis de los planes nacionales de salud.” Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública. 45: e29. (descargar)
2020 Kavanagh M, Meier B, Pillinger M, Huffstetler H, Burris S. “Global Policy Surveillance: creating and using comparative national data on health law and policy.” American Journal of Public Health. 110 (12): 1805. (download)
2020 Kavanagh M, Graeden E, Pillinger M, Singh R, Eaneff S, Bendaud V, Gustav R, Erkkola T. “Understanding and comparing HIV-related law and policy environments: cross-national data and accountability for the global AIDS response.” BMJ Global Health. 5 (9):e003695. (full text)
2020 Kavanagh M, Katz I, Holmes C. “Reckoning with Mortality: Global Health, HIV and the Politics of Data” The Lancet. 396 (10246): 288. (download)
2020 Kavanagh M and Singh R. “Democracy, Capacity, and Coercion in Pandemic Response—COVID 19 in Comparative Political Perspective.” Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. 45(6): 997. (download)
2020 Kavanagh M, Gostin L, Stephens J. “Tuberculosis, human rights, and law reform: Addressing the lack of progress in the global tuberculosis response.” PLOS Medicine. 17(10): e1003324.
2020 Kavanagh M, Erondu N, Tomori O, Dzau V, Okiro O, Maleche A, Aniebo I, Rugege U, Holmes C, Gostin L. “Access to lifesaving medical resources for African countries: COVID-19 testing and response, ethics, and politics,” The Lancet. 395 (10238): 1735. (download)
2020 Kavanagh M. “Authoritarianism, Outbreaks, and Information Politics,” Lancet Public Health. 5(3): 135. (download)
2019 Friedman E, Marmot M, Kavanagh M, Binagwaho A, Mukherjee J, Periago M, Coates A, Chowdhury M, Robinson T, Veloso V, Wang C, Were M, Gostin L. “Putting Health Equity at Heart of Universal Coverage—the Need for National Programmes of action,” BMJ. 367: l5901.
2019 Kavanagh M, Thirumurthy H, Katz R, Ebi K, Beyrer C, Headley J, Holmes CB, Collins C, Gostin L. “Ending Pandemics: U.S. Foreign Policy To Mitigate Today’s Major Killers, Tomorrow’s Outbreaks, And The Health Impacts Of Climate Change.” Journal of International Affairs. 73(1). download)
2019 Kavanagh M and Chen L. “Governance and Health Aid from the Global Fund: Effects Beyond Fighting Disease.” Annals of Global Health. 85 (1): 69. (download)
2019 Gostin L, Phelan A, Coutinho AG, Eccleston-Turner M, Erondu N, Filani O, Inglesby T, Katz R, Maleche A, Nuzzo J, Tomori O, Kavanagh M. “Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Time to Sound a Global Alert?” The Lancet. 393 (10172): 617.
2019 Kavanagh M and Dubula-Majola V. “Policy Change & Micro-Politics in Global Health Aid: HIV in South Africa.” Health Policy & Planning. 34 (1): 1. (download)
2019 Tomori O, Durrheim D, Gostin L, Kavanagh M. “Ebola in North Kivu, DR Congo – is it an undeclared public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)?” Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 29:1-3.
2019 Kavanagh M, Baral S, Milanga M, Sugarman J. “Biometrics, Public Health Surveillance, and Criminalized Populations: Policy, Ethics and Human Rights Considerations.” The Lancet HIV. 6 (1): e51. (download)
2019 Gostin L and Kavanagh M. “The Ethics of Breastfeeding by Women Living with HIV/AIDS: A Concrete Proposal for Reforming Department of Health and Human Services Recommendations.” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 47(1): 161.
2019 Russell A, Luba M, Mwehonge K, Lusimbo R, Milanga M, Kavanagh M. (lead author) “Civil Society Accountability to Achieve the 90-90-90 Targets.” Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS. 14 (1): 41.
2018 Gostin L, Kavanagh M, Cameron B. “Ebola and War in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Avoiding Failure and Thinking Ahead.” JAMA /Journal of the American Medical Association. 321(3): 243.
2018 Meier B, Evans D, Kavanagh M, Keralis JM, and Armas-Cardona G. “Human Rights in Public Health: Deepening Engagement at a Critical Time” Health & Human Rights Journal. 20 (2): 85.
2018 Kavanagh M and Gostin O. “The World Health Organization’s Momentous Struggle to Respond to the AIDS Pandemic.” American Journal of Public Health. 108 (10): 1272.
2017 Schwartz S, Kavanagh M, Quinn T, Beyrer C, Sugarman J, Solomon S, Njindam IM, Rebe K, Toure-Kane C, Baral S. “HIV Viral Load Monitoring Among Key Populations in Low and Middle Income Countries: Challenges and opportunities.” Journal of the International AIDS Society.20 (7): 43.
2016 Kavanagh M. “Health Rights: Institutional Effects of Constitutional Provisions on Health Outcomes.” Studies in Comparative International Development. 51 (3): 328. (download)
2015 Kavanagh M, Cohn J, Mabote L, Meier BM, Williams B, Russell A, Sikwese K, Baker B. “Evolving Human Rights and the New Science of Antiretroviral Medicine.” Health & Human Rights Journal 17(1): 76.
2015 Meier B, Gelpi A, Kavanagh M, Forman L & Amon J. “Employing Human Rights Frameworks to Realize Access to an HIV Cure.” Journal of the International AIDS Society 18 (1): 20305.
2015 Kavanagh M, Headley J, Russell A. “Political Factors Behind U.S. Global AIDS Programs Slow Down.” The Lancet 385 (9966): 419
2015 Beyrer C, Birx D, Bekker, Barré-Sinoussi F, Cahn P, Dybul M, Eholié S, Kavanagh M (corresponding author), Katabira E, Lundgren J, Mworeko L, Pala M, Puttanakit T, Ryan O, Sidibé M, Montaner J. “The Vancouver Consensus: antiretroviral medicines, medical evidence, and political will.” The Lancet 386 (9993): 505.
2014 Kavanagh M. “The Politics & Epidemiology of Transition: PEPFAR and AIDS in South Africa.” Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 65(3): 247.
2014 Kavanagh M and Baker B. “Governance and Transparency at PEPFAR.” Lancet Global Health 2 (1): 13.
2004 Kavanagh M. “Rewriting the Legal Family: Beyond Exclusivity to a Care-Based Standard.” Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 16: 83.
Working Papers
“- Lamontagne, E, Nyako H, Enemo A, Muhammad A, Abdullah R, Okiwu H, Undelikwo, V, Ogbozor P, Amusan R, Alaba O, Undelikwo G, Takpa K, Ashefor G, Kavanagh M, Folayan M. “The health inequity and socioeconomic inequality faced by adolescent girls and women on the move living with or at high risk of HIV infection, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.” BMJ Global Health [R&R]
- Golden M, Zhai H, Slough T, Humphreys M, Vivalt E, Diaz-Cayeros A, Dionne K, Sampata KC, Nazrullaeva E, Kavanagh M ... Scacco A. “Gathering, evaluating, and aggregating social scientific models of COVID-19 mortality.” [under review]
- Policar S, Sharp AR, Hyppolite JI, Marie G, Steide E, Lucien L, Ledan, N, Kavanagh M. “Drivers of HIV treatment interruption: early findings from community-led monitoring program in Haiti.” PLoS ONE [R&R]
- Katz IT, Thomson DR, Ravishankar S, Otwombe K, Macarayan ER, Novak C, Schulte AR, Atwood S, Woskie LR, Siegel Z, Agins B, Dietrich J, Johnson BT, Stevens EJ, Butler LM, Kavanagh M, “Intersectional forces of rising urban inequality and the global HIV pandemic: A retrospective analysis.” [BMJ under review]
- Oh J, Hwang S, Quynh Long K, Kim M, Park K, Kwon, SL, Barios, OE, Torres I, Kavanagh M ... McKee M. “Real World Evidence of Trace, Test, Isolation, and Quarantine Impact on the COVID-19 Pandemic Response Performance” [Under review]
Analysis
2023 Kavanagh M, Abinader LG, Banda A. “Equity and technology in the pandemic treaty.” BMJ . 383: 2533.
2023 Erondu N, Mafokeng T, Kavanagh M, Matache M, Bosha S. “Towards anti-racist policies and strategies to reduce poor health outcomes in racialised communities.” The Lancet. 401 (10391): 134.
2022 Byanyima W, Lauterbach K, Kavanagh M. “Community Pandemic Response: The Importance of Action Led by Communities and the Public Sector.” The Lancet. 401 (10373): 253.
2022 Byanyima W, Kavanagh M. “Equalizing the Response to AIDS and Other Pandemics.” PLOS Global Public Health. 2(12): e0001370.
2022 Kavanagh M. “Learn from COVID: Gates’s Pandemic Prescription.” Nature. 606 (7914): 457.
2022 Kavanagh M. “To End AIDS and COVID-19, End Inequalities.” African Journal of AIDS Research. 20 (2).
2021 Kavanagh M, Pillinger M, Singh R, Ginsbach K. “To Democratize Vaccine Access, Democratize Production.” Foreign Policy.
2021 Kavanagh M, Erondu N, Pillinger M. “The United States Needs a New Approach to Fight Pandemics in a New Era.” Think Global Health.
2020 Kavanagh M. US Elections and a Foreign Policy for Pandemics. The Lancet Public Health. 5(10): e517-8.
2020 Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Matthew M. Kavanagh, John T. Monahan, Harold Hongju Koh. “Joining COVAX Could Save American Lives,” Foreign Policy.
2020 Kavanagh M and Pillinger M. “Leaving the WHO & American Public Health,” Foreign Policy.
2020 Kavanagh M. “Transparency and Testing Work Better Than Coercion in Coronavirus Battle,” Foreign Policy.
2019 Kavanagh M. “Pandemics & Presidential Politics: Ignoring One of the World’s Biggest Looming Threats,” Foreign Policy.
2019 Kavanagh M. “Good Health Supports Good Governance,” Foreign Policy.
2014 Kavanagh M and Collins C. “Don’t Put The Brakes On Ending AIDS: An Analysis of U.S. Aid Impact,” Health Affairs online.
2013 Kavanagh M.“TRIPping Up Least Developed Countries on Medicines, Green Tech, and Textbooks? Intellectual Property & WTO Rules,” Foreign Policy in Focus.
2011 Kavanagh M and Thorpe M. “PEPFAR’s Declining Investment in Treatment,” Health Affairs, online.
Commentary
“New Medicines May Help End AIDS– but High Prices & Monopolies Could Keep the Poor Locked Out,” (with Eamonn Murphy) International Press Service, 18 May 2022.
“Ending AIDS and stopping pandemics through closing inequalities,” American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
“Biden Must Push Drug Firms to Share Science With The World,” (with Madhavi Sunder) Bloomberg Law 23 April 2021.
“Don’t Let Intellectual Property Rights Get in the Way of Global Vaccination,” Washington Post 15 March 2021.
“This World Aids Day the global response to HIV stands on a precipice,” (with Winnie Byanyima) The Guardian, 1 December 2020.
“What’s Holding Back an Effective AIDS Response in South and Southeast Asia?” (with Kashish Aneja) Science/The Wire, 1 December 2020.
“US withdrawal from WHO is unlawful and threatens global and US health and security,” (with Lawrence O Gostin, Harold Hongju Koh, Michelle Williams, Margaret A Hamburg, Georges Benjamin, William H Foege, Patricia Davidson, Elizabeth H Bradley, Michele Barry, Jeffrey P Koplan, Mirta Flia Roses Periago, Wafaa El Sadr, Ann Kurth, Sten H Vermund)The Lancet, July 2020.
“Congress must stop Trump from withdrawing from the WHO,” (with Lawrence Gostin & Harold Hongju Koh) The Hill, 8 July 2020.
“Why Trump and his allies’ criticisms of the WHO are wrong,” (with L Gostin) Washington Post, 13 April 2020.
“US must follow India's prescription on health and IP,” Asian Age, 2 October 2013.
“The Economics of Cancer: Learning From India About Innovation,” Huffington Post, 5 April 2013.