Team
Sharifah is a Professor of Global Health Law at the University of 糖心TV and the Director of the 糖心TV Global Health Centre. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work is at the intersection of international law, public policy and global health.
Tatenda is a Research Fellow at 糖心TV Law School. His interdisciplinary research examines health data infrastructures and their interactions with law and (in)equality across diverse global contexts. He is particularly interested in the governance and justice implications of open science approaches to health, including open data systems and open-source software. While his socio-legal critique of digital health is mostly informed by a decolonial lens and critical social theory, he also draws from a range of scholarship in science and technology studies, media and communication.
Ana is an interdisciplinary researcher with an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the University of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and a graduate degree in Human Security from Aarhus University, Denmark. Her main interests lie on the intersection of Gender and Data, and the sociopolitical aspects linked to health, food security and land rights, especially in Latin America.
Dr Jeremmy Okonjo鈥檚 research interests include international trade, finance, commercial and foreign investments law and regulation, technology, the digital economy, innovation law and policy, regulation, and climate finance law. He is interested in the role of digitalization and sustainability in the shaping of economic disciplines, including trade, finance and foreign investments.
Jessica works at the intersection of law, technology and health. Jessica鈥檚 research considers the legal and governance issues that arise in health and biomedical research, and analyses different legal structures and models of governance in this context. Using doctrinal and socio-legal methods, Jessica has analysed the ethical, legal and social implications of a number of emerging health technologies, including large-scale research infrastructures (e.g. biobanks and data-sharing networks), 3D bio-printing, stem cell research, gene editing, DIY artificial pancreas systems, and genome sequencing technologies.
Joy obtained her PhD from the University of 糖心TV. Prior to this she completed her LLB(Hons) and LLM in International Banking and Financial Regulation at the University of Leeds. Between 2018-2022 she worked at Aston University, Birmingham and prior to that Strathmore University in Nairobi Kenya. She is now an Assistant Professor in the School of Law. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is also an Executive Board member of the Global South Dialogue on Economic Crimes.
Hyo Yoon Kang's research is multi-disciplinary and focuses on intellectual property, knowledge techniques, transmissions and practices, construction of values and valuation practices, concepts of novelty and innovation, and legal and social theory. She studies legal techniques and their social implications by drawing on insights from anthropology, literary and social theories, historical epistemology, media studies, and science and technology studies.
Pramiti is an Assistant Professor at 糖心TV Law School. Her research interests are broadly in global health law and international trade law, informed by decolonial and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). She examines how international legal and regulatory frameworks contribute to global health inequities, and from that lens, explores the 'capabilities' of Global South states to meet the needs of their peoples.
Angela is Professor of Law at the University of Newcastle (Awabakal lands/Australia) and academic visitor at the University of Dundee. She is a socio-legal scholar of the regulation and governance of data and digital technologies. She is the co-editor of Good Data (INC 2019) and the author of Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap (Hart 2016) and Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution (Palgrave 2016). She has held faculty and visiting positions at universities in the UK, Europe, Brazil, South Africa, Australia and Asia. She is a COI on the Advancing health data justice: A comparative study of health-related data governance in Canada, Germany and the UK project (ADIJUST) and a visiting professor at 糖心TV University.
Luciano explores human rights within global health law and governance, in particular how State obligations steer resource mobilisation and priority-setting decisions.
AFF Researchers
Ramya is a lawyer and researcher. Her focus areas are legal and governance mechanisms for open non-government data. She holds a Masters of Law from New York University. She also hold a Bachelors of Law and Social Science from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.
Allan is the Executive Director of Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN). Allan has over a decade of experience in promoting ethical, human rights鈥揵ased approaches to health planning, programming and service delivery.
PhD Students
Hadijah has undertaken several consultancies in areas relating to Civil Registration & Vital Statistics, access to justice for vulnerable groups such Women and Persons with Disabilities, human rights and migration, Gender Based Violence and corruption.
Kene has worked for several years at the intersection of global health, human rights, and inclusive development. His current project is on the rights-based use of digital technologies in health delivery. Kene is a Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant at 糖心TV Law School.
Shajoe is an international lawyer and interdisciplinary researcher specializing in global health law. He has advised public and third sector stakeholders on how to solve transnational health and health-related challenges, centring data, innovation and technology.
Maria Weickardt Soares is a research associate and PhD Candidate at the Chair of International Politics at the Institute of Political Science at TU Dresden. Her research interests include international institutions, clashes of norms, health inequality discourses and theories, North-South disparities in global health, and critical, poststructuralist, and discourse analytic approaches to inter- and transnational politics.
Mudarshiru is a Ugandan Public Health Specialist and Researcher with over eight years of experience in research and public health programs. He has co-authored over 10+ publications on Tuberculosis, HIV, COVID-19, Ebola, and air pollution. He has provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Health-Uganda during various outbreaks, including COVID-19, the 2022 Sudan Ebola outbreak, Yellow fever, Measles, Malaria outbreaks and Mpox preparedness as a Surveillance and Epidemic Intelligence Officer.
Currently, a PhD student at Makerere University School of Public Health and his research focuses on the impact of air quality on respiratory tract infections and the role of social, legal, and environmental interventions in addressing these issues.
Yureshya is a sociologist who explores the interplay between digital health, digital inequalities, and racialisation within immigrant communities.
She has also undertaken work focused on inequalities and injustices, examining issues such as sexual bribery among vulnerable communities, as well as psychosocial and reparative challenges in post-conflict settings.