Research – Renu Singh

Book Projects

What Makes a Changemaker? The Politics of Policy Change in the Obesity Crisis. Working Manuscript

Best Poster on Public Policy Award (APSA Public Policy Section, 2019)

Designed to Fail? COVAX, Vaccine Inequity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. (with Summer Marion and Catherine Worsnop) Under Advance Contract with Cambridge University Press, Elements in International Relations

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

Regime Type, State Capacity, and the Politics of COVID-19 Vaccinations in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. (with Scott Williamson) in Vaccination Politics: The Comparative Politics of COVID-19 Vaccinations. Eds. Scott Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and Holly Jarman. University of Michigan Press. Forthcoming.

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.

Articles Under Review

Democracy, Trust, and Political Orientation: Unravelling the Role of Individual Political Factors in Vaccine Attitudes. (Marcello Antonini, et al.) Revise & Resubmit.

Anti-Americanism and Foreign Aid Preferences Among Political Elites: Evidence from Tunisia. (with Alexandra Blackman, Aytuğ Şaşmaz, and Scott Williamson) Revise & Resubmit.

Which Experts and Why? Assessing the Effects of Expert Guidance from Different Levels of Governance. Under Review.

Assessing WHO’s Influence: Vaccine Endorsements in the Context of a Diversified Global Health System. (with Naoko Matsumura, et al.) 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.

Determinants of user satisfaction with shared parking: A machine learning approach. (with Juan Wang, Praveen Kumar Maghelal and Pengyu Zhu) Under Review.

Working Papers

Saving the World to Save Ourselves? How Self-Interest Affects Support for Global Vaccine Sharing.

Does Legislative Approval Increase Policy Support During a Crisis? Evidence from Five Countries.

Crisis Performance, Hegemonic Preferences, and Support for Democracy: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic. (with Scott Williamson and Jonathan Chu)

What Motivates the Motivators: How Healthcare Providers Get Patients Ready to Vote. (with Georgia Kernell, et al.)

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.

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.

“Book Review: Thieves of State by Sara Chayes.” Democracy and Society. Volume 14. 2016-2017.

“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

COP29 Online Inclusive Diplomacy Lounge: World Leaders Climate Action Summit and Current Negotiations
European Commission: Between decarbonization and derisking – circular economy, strategic autonomy, and the road to net-zero in the EU-China green technology value chains
FuturEU & European Generation: Writing Policy Briefs
Texas Biomedical Research Institute Global Health Symposium: Examining the geopolitics of vaccine equity
G20 to COP28: Climate, Energy, Growth
Liceo Scientifico Vittorini: The Global Politics of Sustainability in a Changing World
Wilson Center: International Cooperation for the Future of Pandemic Preparation