Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “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. Forthcoming. 2021.

• “Understanding and Comparing HIV-Related Law & Policy Environments: Cross-National Data and Accountability for the Global AIDS Response.” (with Matthew Kavanagh, Ellie Graeden, Mara Pillinger, Stephanie Eaneff, Victoria Bendaud, Rico Gustav, and Taavi Erkkola) 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

Working Papers

• 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 the US and Germany.

• Where’s the Money From? Attitudes toward Donor Countries and Foreign Aid in the Arab World.” (with Scott Williamson)

• How Obamacare Altered State-Level Public Opinion on Medicaid

• Nuclear Weapons and Infectious Disease: The Role of Science, Policy, and the State

• The Influence of Political Institutions on Preventative Health Care Policy: The Case of Germany and the US

Other Selected Publications

• “Where has the world made progress in HIV Policy?” LSE Blogs. January 26, 2021.

• “Why public trust in the WHO matters.” LSE Blogs. 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.