Claudia Acosta is a PhD candidate in Public Administration and Government at Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) and was a visiting student in the Political Science Department at MIT (United States). She teaches at Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) and at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Her background includes Urban Studies and Law. Her research focuses on urban policies in Latin America, the political economy behind federal social policies locally implemented, and its territorial impacts.

Luisa Bolaffi Arantes is a master’s degree student in Public Administration at the São Paulo School of Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil. She is interested in comparative public policies, federalism, and health policy. She was a visiting research student in the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in 2019 and a visiting research student at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2021.

Francisco Inácio Bastos, MD, PhD, is a Senior Researcher, physician, and former Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ). He has substantial experience in the research of substance misuse, particularly its association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), viral hepatitis, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and blood-borne diseases. Dr. Bastos has been the principal investigator on a number of large, multi-city studies on HIV and other blood-borne infections and STIs.

Uviwe Binase, MA, is a second-year PhD student at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research focuses on Health Economics (Economics of Tobacco Control in South Africa). She holds a bachelor’s degree in Geography/Sociology and a master’s degree in Population Studies from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her master’s dissertation investigated the socioeconomic determinants of life expectancy in post-apartheid South Africa.

Endre Borbáth, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher working at the Institute of Sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin, and at the Center for Civil Society Research at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. His research focuses on the interaction between party competition and protest politics in a comparative, European perspective. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute.

Page 640 →Eleanor Brooks, PhD, is a Lecturer in health policy in the Global Health Policy Unit at the University of Edinburgh and a Scientific Advisor to the European Public Health Alliance, Brussels. She holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, studying the impact of the Better Regulation Agenda on European Union health policy. Her broader research explores the changing governance of health within the EU.

John P. Burns, PhD, is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong and author of Government Capacity and the Hong Kong Civil Service (Oxford University Press, 2004 and 2010). He does research on the politics and public administration of China, including Hong Kong.

Manuela Caiani, PhD, is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Florence, Italy. Her research interests focus on populism, extreme right political parties and movements, social movements, and Europeanization. She has been involved in several international comparative research projects on populism, radical right, and social movements. She currently conducts a project on the cultural side of populism (VolkswagenStiftung).

Ruth Carlitz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, where she teaches courses on international development and African Politics. Her research focuses primarily on the politics of public goods provision in low-income countries, from the perspectives of both governments and citizens. In addition to her academic research, she has worked on evaluations commissioned by USAID, the International Budget Partnership, DFID, and the World Bank.

Adèle Cassola, PhD, MSc, is an Investigator and Research Director–Public Health Institutions at the Global Strategy Lab, where she leads research that investigates the relationships among public health policy, institutional design, and the use of scientific evidence. Dr. Cassola has previously led comparative policy research on topics including equity in legal rights protections, educational inclusion, and affordable housing policy.

Jonathan D. Cylus, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow at LSE Health and Honorary Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His main research is on health systems, focusing primarily on health financing policy, health economics, and health system performance. He is also interested in the impact of social policies and other social determinants on health.

Thomas Czypionka, MD, MSc, is Head of the Department of Health Economics and Health Policy at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science. His main interests lie in health services research, comparative health systems analysis, and the political economy of health systems.

Page 641 →Anniek de Ruijter, PhD, is Associate Professor of Health Law and Policy at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She is Co-Director of the Law Center for Health and Life at the Faculty of Law of the UvA and Research Fellow of the Amsterdam Center for European Law and Governance. She is a board member of the Amsterdam Centre for Global Health and Development.

Kim Yi Dionne, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California Riverside and the author of Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She collected much of the data for her book in Malawi, where she was a Fulbright Fellow from 2008 to 2009, and where she served as a credentialed election observer in 2014 and 2019.

Kenneth A. Dubin, PhD, is Managing Director at Medius Capital, an investment firm focused on Southern European technology companies pursuing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) objectives. He is also Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Human Resources at IE Business School (Madrid). He has previously held full-time academic positions in labor law and human resource management at the Universidad Carlos III and Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Victoria I. Dudina, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Sociology at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia. Dr. Dudina has extensive academic and research experience in the field of sociology of health and digital sociology. Her current research projects are devoted to vulnerable populations’ access to health care services and peer support in online health communities.

Boniface Dulani, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Malawi and visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. Dr. Dulani is a senior member of the Afrobarometer, where he doubles as the Director of Surveys. He researches and publishes on presidential term limits, democracy, presidentialism, tolerance, elections, and public health.

Patrick Fafard, PhD, is a Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and serves as the Associate Director of the Global Strategy Lab (York University and University of Ottawa). Patrick has had a lengthy career spanning both government and academe. His current research includes the governance of organ donation and transplantation and a comparative study of public health leadership and communication in the context of COVID-19.

Michelle Falkenbach, MA, is a PhD candidate within the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Page 642 →Her research interests include populist radical right politicians and their impact on health politics and policies, comparative health politics, and European health systems.

Sara E. Fischer, MPH, is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. She was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Malawi from 2019 to 2020, where she conducted ethnographic field research for her dissertation on the politics of the community health system. She previously completed a dual Master of Public Health degree from the Universities of Sheffield, UK, and Copenhagen, Denmark, where she studied the health policy agenda-setting process in Tanzania.

Scott L. Greer, PhD, is Professor of Health Management and Policy, Global Public Health, and Political Science at the University of Michigan. His most recent books include Federalism and Social Policy (2019), Everything You Always Wanted to Know about European Union Health Policy but Were Afraid to Ask (2019), and The European Union after Brexit (2020).

Akihito Hagihara, PhD, MPH, is Professor Emeritus at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, and Visiting Director of the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center in Osaka, Japan. His research interest includes clinical epidemiology and health policy. He has authored about 300 publications and 10 textbooks in English and Japanese. He received an MPH from University of Michigan and a PhD in medical sciences from Osaka University.

Joseph Harris, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He conducts comparative historical research that lies at the intersection of sociology, political science, and global health. He is author of Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (Cornell University Press, 2017) and co-founder of the Global Health and Development Interest Group within the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Section on Development. He has received two Fulbright scholarships for his research on health politics.

Holly Jarman, PhD, is the John G. Searle Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan. As a political scientist, she researches the relationship between economic regulation and health policy. Her publications appear in journals including The Lancet, Milbank Quarterly, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Her monograph, The Politics of Trade and Tobacco Control, explores the consequences of trade law for tobacco control policies.

Pauline Jones, PhD, is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her scholarly work contributes to the study of institutions and identity-based mobilization. She focuses primarily on Central Asia. She has published four books Page 643 →and dozens of articles in both academic and policy journals. She founded and directs the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, a collaborative program of instruction that provides a global perspective on Islam and the Muslim world.

Matthew M. Kavanagh, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Global Health at Georgetown University and Director of the Global Health Policy & Politics Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law. A political scientist by training, with a long history of work on global health policy in the non-governmental organization (NGO) sphere, his research focuses on the political economy of health policy in low- and middle-income countries and the political impact of human and constitutional rights on population health.

Elizabeth J. King, PhD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. She specializes in the structural and social inequities influencing access to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) services, women’s health and gender-equitable access to health care services, promotion of a rights-based approach to HIV testing and treatment policies, and the influence of global policies and funding on public health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Alan Kawarai Lefor, PhD, is Professor of Surgery at Jichi Medical University in Japan, specializing in surgical education. He has authored almost seven hundred publications as well as twelve textbooks in English and Japanese. Dr. Lefor received a PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo studying robotic surgery education and simulation.

Dimitra Lingri, LLB, LLM, is a lawyer specializing in Public Law. She is the Head of the Legal Department of the Hellenic National Organization of Healthcare Provision (EOPYY, Greece). She is a member of multiple European Commission committees on safe and timely access to medicines, and member of the WHO’s Fair Pricing Group. She is a Researcher (Faculty of Law, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece) and Visiting Fellow (Faculty of Medicine, National Kapodistrian, University of Athens).

Christos Lionis, MD, PhD, is Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care, and Head of the Clinic of Social and Family Medicine (Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece). He is also Visiting Professor at the School of Medicine and Health (University of Linkoping, Sweden). He has published over 365 papers in international journals. Dr. Lionis is a member of the European Commission’s Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health.

Olga Löblová, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the political economy Page 644 →of resource allocation in health care and on the role of experts and evidence in health policy-making. She publishes on the politics of health technology assessment at the EU level, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. She holds a PhD in public policy.

Margaret MacAulay, PhD, is an Investigator at the Global Strategy Lab, where she leads a comparative study examining senior public health leadership and communication in the context of COVID-19. Margaret has previously led qualitative studies investigating the role of media and its relationship to sexual health issues, including HIV prevention and sexual violence.

Pedro C. Magalhães, PhD, is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He studies elections, public opinion, and judicial behavior. Dr. Magalhães received his PhD in Political Science from the Ohio State University.

Elize Massard da Fonseca, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the São Paulo School of Business Administration, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil. She is also a visiting scholar at the Latin America and Caribbean Center at the London School of Economics (LACC/LSE). She specializes in pharmaceutical regulation in Latin America, health industry policy, and the politics of infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C). Her research on COVID-19 is funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (grant #2020/05230-8).

Ryozo Matsuda, PhD, is Professor at the College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University. His main research fields are comparative health policy and systems research and comparative welfare state studies. He has also been involved in policy research relevant to equity in health, inclusive health care, prison health, and the right to health. He has served as the president of the Japanese Society for Health and Welfare Policy since 2017.

Margitta Mätzke, PhD, is Professor of Politics and Social Policy at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. She has a PhD from Northwestern University (2005) and the venia docendi from the University of Göttingen (2012), both in Political Science. Her research focuses on governance, decision-making, and institutional dynamics in the development of Western welfare states. In this field she is especially interested in family policy, health policy, and public health.

Claudio A. Méndez, MPH, holds the position of Associate Professor of health policy, and Director at the Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile. He served as Health Authority (April 2016 to March 2018) for the región de Los Ríos, appointed during President Michelle Bachelet’s second term in office. His main teaching and research interests are health policies, global health, health systems, and the politics of health policies.

Page 645 →Henry A. Mollel, PhD, MSc, is Associate Professor of Health Systems Management and Local Governance at Mzumbe University in the Department of Health Systems Management. He is the Principal Investigator and Coordinator in the Centre of Excellence in Health Monitoring and Evaluation at Mzumbe University. He has published extensively in the areas of health systems management, human resources for health, data systems and data use in the health sector, and local governance.

N’dea Moore-Petinak, MSc, is a doctoral candidate in Health Services Organization & Policy and Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the impact of federalism on health disparities in the United States. Her dissertation focuses on children’s health and state policy flexibility. She received her bachelor’s degrees from Santa Clara University and her master’s degree from Trinity College Dublin.

Takashi Nagata, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Section of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Department of Advanced Medical Initiatives, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University. He is a front-line physician of emergency medicine and a researcher of public health and emergency management.

Nicoli Nattrass, PhD, is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has published widely on macroeconomic policy, inequality, AIDS, and the struggle for antiretroviral treatment, including AIDS denialist and AIDS conspiracy beliefs. Her most recent book (with Jeremy Seekings) is Inclusive Dualism: Labour-Intensive Development, Decent Work and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019).

Kanayo K. Ogujiuba, PhD (Econs), PhD (Stats), is a Development Economist by training with interests in Behavioural Research/Population Health, Economics, and Public Policy. He has a long history of work with multilateral institutions, with a focus on development policy. Over the course of his career, Dr. Ogujiuba has played significant roles in cross-institutional collaboration, research development, and innovation activities. He is currently with the School of Development Studies, University of Mpumalanga (UMP) South Africa.

Darius Ornston, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where he specializes in innovation policy and the political economy of small states. His latest book, Good Governance Gone Bad (Cornell University Press, 2018), illustrates how the same tight-knit networks that facilitate collective action in the Nordic region also contribute to policy overshooting and economic crises.

Saime Özçürümez, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University. She conducts comparative public policy research on migration governance, social cohesion, gender-based Page 646 →violence in forced migration contexts, social trauma, and forced migration. She is the co-editor of Forced Migration and Social Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sociology and Politics (Routledge, 2018). She was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University.

Michèle Palkovits, MPP/MGA, joined the Global Strategy Lab (GSL) as a Research Fellow during the COVID-19 pandemic, where she primarily contributes to research conducted by the Public Health Institutions stream. Her research at GSL investigates different dimensions of decision-making for public health policy, including political factors, the use of scientific evidence, as well as leadership and governance structures.

June Park, PhD, is a political economist and East Asia Voices Initiative Fellow of the East Asia National Resources Center at George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. She is also a Next Generation Researcher at the National Research Foundation of Korea for her first book manuscript, “Trade Wars, Currency Conflict: China, South Korea and Japan’s Responses to U.S. Pressures since the Global Financial Crisis.” She has published in World Development and Asian Perspective.

André Peralta-Santos, MD, MPH, is a medical doctor, public health specialist, and Director of Health Information of the Directorate-General for Health in Portugal. He has worked for international organizations such as the World Health Organization and the European Commission, as well as national governments and local health organizations.

Elena Petelos, PhD, MPH, is Senior Research Fellow in Public Health and Lecturer for Evidence-Based Medicine (University of Crete), and Research & Teaching Fellow (Maastricht University). She is a member of the Steering Group of WHO’s European Health Information Initiative (Chair of EU-OECD-WHO Mapping Indicators Subgroup and Vice-Chair of Evidence-Informed Policy Subgroup). Dr. Petelos is an expert with the European Commission.

Mara Pillinger, PhD, MPH, is an Associate in the Global Health Policy & Politics Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on political dynamics and organizational reform at the World Health Organization and the major multisectoral global health partnerships.

Minakshi Raj, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She completed her PhD in Health Services Organization and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research interests include health Page 647 →care decision making among older adults and caregivers, use and implications of health information technologies, and the role of cultural context in organizational approaches to quality improvement.

Selina Rajan, MSc, is a Specialist Public Health Registrar in London, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex and an Honorary Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has experience working in local authority public health departments in the UK, and her research interests are in health systems, with a particular focus on mental health.

Miriam Reiss, MSc, is a Researcher at the Department of Health Economics and Health Policy at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. She has a background in economics and sociology and has mainly worked on projects in the fields of health economics, health policy analysis, and comparative studies in health care systems.

Julia Rone, PhD, is a Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Cambridge. She has a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence with a thesis on mobilizations against free trade agreements. Dr. Rone’s current research explores contestations over sovereignty in Europe. She has written on hacktivism, digital disobedience, and more recently, the rise of far right media in Europe.

Sarah D. Rozenblum, MS, is a PhD candidate in Public Health and Political Science at the University of Michigan and a WHO Consultant. Her research interests include the comparative politics of public health, policy responses to the spread of communicable disease, and the political economy of medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and vaccines regulation.

Luis Saboga-Nunes, Lic Soc, MPH, PhD, EuHP, a health sociologist, is Associated Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Education Freiburg, Germany, and Professeur Affilié UNESCO Chair/WHO Collaborating Center in Global Health & Education. A certified European Health Promotion Practitioner (EuHP) (IUHPE), he is president of the Health Promotion Section at the European Public Health Association (EUPHA). His research interest has focused on theoretical and evidence-based good practice in public health and health literacy.

Victor C. Shih, PhD, is the Ho Miu Lam Chair Associate Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at University of California San Diego. He is author of Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation and the editor of Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability: Duration, Institutions and Financial Conditions. He is also the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and Page 648 →business journals, including The American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Politics.

Phillip M. Singer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Utah. He researches comparative health policy within the United States, the politics of health policy, health policies for vulnerable populations, and the politics of infectious diseases and public health disasters. He has published extensively in medical, public health, and health services journals.

Renu Singh, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Public Policy and a Junior Fellow at the Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She was formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law. Her research focuses on comparative social policy, global health security, and the political economy of health.

Monika Steffen, PhD, is an Affiliated Researcher at the PACTE Social Science Research Center, Grenoble-Alps University (France) and former CNRS Research Professor. Her work focuses on comparative social and health policies. She has published extensively on AIDS policies and on health governance in Europe. She founded and directed the Health Policy master’s program at Sciences-Po Grenoble and held visiting research and professor positions at Japanese universities (Ritsumeikan, Akita International, Keio, and Kyoto).

Mónica Uribe-Gómez, PhD, is Professor at the Political Science Department at the Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Económicas of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellín, Colombia). She holds a PhD in Social Science from El Colegio de México (México). She has publications in social policy and political cycles in Latin America and health policy in comparative studies with a focus in Colombia and México.

Durfari Velandia-Naranjo, PhD, MSc, is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Económicas of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and coordinates the Laboratory of Applied Economics. Dr. Velandia-Naranjo holds degrees in Economics from El Colegio de México (México). She has worked in applied micro-econometric methods on health economics and other topics. In health, she has conducted economic evaluations and researched demand and use of care services, childcare, labor force participation decisions, and health measures.

Rebecca Wai is a PhD student in the Political Science Department and a Lieberthal-Rogel Center for China Studies Doctoral Fellow at the University of Page 649 →Michigan. Her research focuses on environmental politics, specifically how citizens and bureaucrats solve collective action problems regarding water distribution in South and East Asia.

Gemma A. Williams, MSc, is PhD candidate in the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. She conducts comparative research on health systems and policies in Europe, with a focus on the health workforce, health financing, health inequalities, digital health, and migration and health.

Charley E. Willison, PhD, MPH, MA, is a National Institutes of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Department of Health Care Policy and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University. Dr. Willison studies the effects of urban politics and intergovernmental relations on public health political decision-making and policy outcomes. Substantively, her work focuses on health policies that are designed and/or delivered at the local level. This includes housing, homelessness, behavioral health policies, and disaster responses.

Emma Willoughby, MSc, is a joint PhD student in the Departments of Health Management and Policy, and Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is affiliated with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan as a FLAS fellow studying Vietnamese language. Her research interests focus on health and development in the global south, with special interest in the political economy of food in Southeast Asia.

Thespina (Nina) Yamanis, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University, where she teaches courses on program planning and global health. Her research focuses on social networks and HIV prevention in Tanzania and on immigrant health. A public health scholar, Dr. Yamanis uses mixed methods and community engagement in her research. She has been the principal investigator on grants from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.