Peer-Reviewed Publications
Journal Articles
“Public preferences for vaccination campaigns in the COVID-19 endemic phase: Insights from the VaxPref database.” (with Marcello Antonini, et al.) Health Policy and Technology. 2024.
“Priming COVID-19's Consequences Can Increase Support for Investments in Public Health.” Social Science & Medicine. 2023.
“Vaccine Politics: Law and Inequality in the Global Pandemic Response to COVID-19.” (with Matthew Kavanagh) Global Policy. 2023.
“Where’s the Money From? Attitudes toward Donor Countries and Foreign Aid in the Arab World.” (with Scott Williamson) International Studies Quarterly. 2022.
Featured: “The Issue with a Gift Horse Is not the Mouth, but the Passport.” Bocconi Knowledge. 2023.
“Fashion consumption during COVID: Comparative analysis of changing practices across nine countries.” (with Katia Vladimirova, et al.) Cleaner and Responsible Consumption. 2022.
“When mortality knocks: Pandemic-inspired attitude shifts with clothing in six countries.” (with Samira Iran, et al.) International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles. 2022.
“Understanding and Comparing HIV-Related Law & Policy Environments: Cross-National Data and Accountability for the Global AIDS Response.” (with Matthew Kavanagh, et al.) BMJ Global Health. 2020.
“Democracy, Capacity, and Coercion in Pandemic Response – COVID-19 in Comparative Political Perspective.” (with Matthew Kavanagh) Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 2020.
JHPPL’s third most read article published in 2020
Book Chapters
Legal Paradigms and the Politics of Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access. (with Matthew Kavanagh) in Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures. Eds. Madhvi Sunder and Haochen Sun. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
A Comparative Perspective on the COVID-19 Response in Europe. in How COVID-19 Took Over the World: Lessons for the Future. Ed. Christine Loh. Hong Kong University Press. 2023.
The Social Contract and Responses to COVID-19. in How COVID-19 Took Over the World: Lessons for the Future. Ed. Christine Loh. Hong Kong University Press. 2023.
“Playing Politics: WHO’s Response to COVID-19.” (with Matthew Kavanagh and Mara Pillinger) in Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19. Eds. Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Andre Peralta, and Elize Massard da Fonseca. University of Michigan Press. 2021.
The most discussed monograph of 2021 according to Altmetric
Book Reviews
“Book Review: Thieves of State by Sara Chayes.” Democracy and Society. Volume 14. 2016-2017.
Book Manuscript
What Makes a Changemaker? The Politics of Policy Change in the Obesity Crisis
Obesity rates have nearly tripled worldwide since 1975, placing nearly two billion people at risk for further health conditions ranging from heart disease to severe COVID-19. Though a range of policy tools exist for addressing this health challenge, progress by most governments has been slow, and the issue receives relatively little public attention. My book emphasizes the importance of politics for understanding these dynamics. It does so by studying the obesity problem in Germany and the United States – two known policy laggards – to answer three questions. First, the book asks what explains different institutional arrangements for dealing with this public health challenge, showing how World War II served as a critical juncture that fragmented public health institutions in Germany while strengthening them in the United States. Second, it explores public opinion toward obesity policies, demonstrating how partisan politics and political ideology structure public opinion toward obesity despite the relatively low salience of the issue in the politics of both countries. Finally, it considers why obesity-related policy change occurs when it does, developing a novel typology of policy entrepreneurs to argue that those with more altruistic motives have been central to pushing policy change on this issue. The book uses a multimethod approach involving analysis of original survey data and experiments, internet search data, archival documents, and over 120 elite interviews. It improves understanding of the mechanisms that shape policy change for low salience issues, while also contributing to knowledge about the influence of politics on public health policy.
Articles Under Review
Regime Type, State Capacity, and the Politics of COVID-19 Vaccinations in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. (with Scott Williamson) Revise & Resubmit.
The determinants of satisfaction with shared parking use: A case study of Guangzhou, China. (with Juan Wang and Pengyu Zhu) Revise & Resubmit.
Which Experts and Why? Assessing the Effects of Expert Guidance from Different Levels of Governance. Under Review.
Anti-Americanism and Foreign Aid Preferences Among Political Elites: Evidence from Tunisia. (with Alexandra Blackman, Aytuğ Şaşmaz, and Scott Williamson) Under Review.
China’s Model of Technology Leapfrog: A Case Study of electric vehicle (EV) policies and the development of green technology. (with Xinying Tan & Pengyu Zhu) Under Review.
Working Papers
Saving the World to Save Ourselves? How Self-Interest Affects Support for Global Vaccine Sharing.
WHO, Multiple Endorsements, and Vaccination Willingness. (with Naoko Matsumura, et al.)
What Makes a Changemaker? An Analysis of Policy Entrepreneurs in German and European Union Food Policy.
Best Poster on Public Policy Award (APSA Public Policy Section, 2019)
Partisanship and Polarization in a Federal Context: Experimental Evidence from Germany and the US.
How Obamacare Altered State-Level Public Opinion on Medicaid.
Other Selected Publications & Media
“Global Health Security Is National Security.” 49security. Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi). 2023.
“Fashion Futures 2040.” Sustainable Fashion Consumption Network. 2023.
“What will remain in the wardrobes after Covid?” Via Sarfatti 25. 2023.
Expert commentary on global governance, COVID-19 policies in the Asia-Pacific, and vaccines for “Asia-Pacific wants to live with Covid. Omicron is threatening those reopening plans.” (by Helen Regan) CNN International. December 6, 2021.
“Global Issues in COVID-19 Relief” Researchers’ Roundtable. COVIDCalls Podcast, hosted by Scott Gabriel Knowles. October 13, 2021.
“New donation pledges won’t fill global COVID-19 vaccine shortfalls. Here’s why.” (with Ngozi Erondu) The Conversation. October 6, 2021.
The Aspen Institute’s Best Idea of the Day (October 25, 2021)
“The U.N. has a plan to end AIDS by 2030. But Russia doesn’t like it.” (with Mara Pillinger) The Washington Post (Monkey Cage). September 15, 2021.
“To Democratize Vaccine Access, Democratize Production.” (with Matthew M. Kavanagh, Mara Pillinger, and Katherine Ginsbach) Foreign Policy Magazine. March 1, 2021.
“COVID-19 Vaccine Production for LMICs.” (with Matthew M. Kavanagh, Ngozi Erondu, Mara Pillinger, Kashish Aneja, and Katherine Ginsbach) Policy Discussion Paper. February 25, 2021.
“Where has the world made progress in HIV Policy?” LSE International Development Blog. January 26, 2021.
“2020 Global HIV Policy Report: Policy Barriers to HIV Progress.” (with Matthew M. Kavanagh and Mara Pillinger) HIV Policy Lab Report. November 30, 2020.
“Why public trust in the WHO matters.” LSE COVID-19 Blog. May 19, 2020.
“Coronavirus and Prospects for Instability in Egypt.” (with Scott Williamson) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. April 22, 2020.
“How the Coronavirus is Plaguing Autocracies and Democracies.” Duck of Minerva. March 10, 2020.
“Global Health Security and Strategic Diplomacy.” Atlantische Initiative. December 12, 2016.
“The Case for Strategic Health Diplomacy: A Study of PEPFAR.” Bipartisan Policy Center. 2015. (Under Tom Daschle and Bill Frist).
“The sugar-coated truth.” Future Foundation. March 13, 2014.
“CVS: The business of being healthy meets the being healthy business.” Future Foundation. February 7, 2014.
Public Engagement
FuturEU & European Generation: Writing Policy Briefs
Texas Biomedical Research Institute Global Health Symposium: Examining the geopolitics of vaccine equity
ChangeLab Solutions & Georgetown University Webinar: Preemption and Policymaking in Public Health Law: From Local to Global
City University of Hong Kong One Health Seminar 2022: Global Public Health: Vaccines and Aid around the World
Public Support for Global Vaccine Distribution: Evidence from Germany, Italy, and the United States
Cornell University Global Hubs Salon Series
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Institute for Emerging Market Studies Seminar
Institut Pasteur & INCEPTION 2021 Symposium: “Social Sciences and Biology for Understanding Emerging Diseases”
COVIDCalls Podcast #357 Researchers’ Roundtable
GITAM School of Gandhian Studies Fulbright Series Lecture
Yoga, Public Health, and Public POlicy
US Embassy New Delhi International Yoga Day Panel Discussion
Yoga for well-being
Physicians Association of Nutrition “Nutrition > Medicine” Webinar
DAAD-sponsored podcast interview on my experiences researching in Germany
Georgetown University Office of Fellowships and Awards Blog
