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Book PROJECT

Pandemic: Politics, Inequality, and the Failure to Stop the World’s Deadliest Viruses (2025, Under contract with Cambridge University Press).

Lancet Commission

1. Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health: Within its three-year lifespan, the Commission has set out four charges: (i) diagnose the mechanisms through which racism works in global health; (ii) identify best practices and actionable anti-racist strategies; (iii) compile a report of its findings; and (iv) disseminate its findings to the public.

Legal Tracking Projects

2.     HIV Policy Lab (PI): Measures the HIV-related law and policy environment in 194 countries. Gathers and codes law and policy information across 33 different indicators (50 including sub-indicators) ranging from HIV treatment and testing policies to criminal law, health workforce policy, intellectual property, and more. Online visualization and research platform (www.hivpolicylab.org).

3.     Health & Care Workers Policy Lab (PI): Brings together information about laws and policies related to the rights, training, management, and protection of health workers, corresponding to international agreements made under the health and care workers compact. Published in partnership with the World Health Organization. (www.hcwpolicylab.org)

4.     COVID Law Lab (Co-PI with K Gottschalk): Gathers and categorizes laws and policies related to COVID-19 from over 190 countries, focused on emergency declarations, quarantine measures, disease surveillance, legal measures relating to mask-wearing, social distancing, and access to medication and vaccines. Published with WHO, UNDP, UNAIDS, and Georgetown University (www.covidlawlab.org)

Other Projects

5. Community Led Monitoring & Social Accountability: Building accountability and improving the quality of health services through community-led, routine data collection and evidence-based advocacy. Read our newest piece on CLM.