Team
Sharifah is a Professor of Global Health Law at the University of Warwick and the Director of the Warwick Global Health Centre. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work is at the intersection of international law, public policy and global health.
Tatenda’s research areas include digital inequalities, digital coloniality, critical data studies, decolonial theories and cultural studies. He is also a Research Fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘There is no app for this! Regulating the migration of health data in Sub Saharan Africa'
Yureshya is a sociologist-activist who explores the interplay between digital health, digital inequalities, and racialisation within immigrant communities. She is also a Research Assistant for two Wellcome Trust-funded projects:
"There is no app for this! Regulating the migration of health data in Sub-Saharan Africa" and "After the End: Lived Experiences and Aftermaths of Diseases, Disasters, and Drugs in Global Health".
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–based approaches to health planning, programming and service delivery.
Luciano explores human rights within global health law and governance, in particular how State obligations steer resource mobilisation and priority-setting decisions.
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 Warwick 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.