Health Governance and Diplomacy Lab
The Health Governance and Diplomacy Lab investigates the laws, policies, organizations and financing mechanisms that govern prevention, preparedness, response and recovery to public health. emergencies.
What We Do
We curate data on policies, laws and regulations relevant to public health emergencies and infectious disease threats, regardless of origin.
We assess and analyze how pandemic preparedness and response policies, law and regulations impact population health outcomes.
We engage in scholarship around global governance regimes for health security, contributing to discourse on international and regional agreements to national and subnational implementation.
We track the flow of financing and develop costing tools related to pandemic preparedness and response.
We design metrics and provide policy guidance for subnational and national authorities.
We train the next generation of global health diplomats.
We support the global health security community of practice.
Important Links
Lab Members
Lab Lead:
Dr. Rebecca Katz, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor & Director
Key Personnel
Steph Eaneff, M.S.
Instructor & Senior Biostatistician
Amanda Rosner, M.P.H.
Senior Research Associate
Gunnar Ljungqvist, M.B.B.S.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bernard (Kwame) Owusu Agyare, M.P.H.
Doctoral Student
Cecil John Philip
Graduate Student Researcher
Iktae Park
Law Student Researcher
Ciara Weets
Research Associate & Program Manager
Mackenzie Moore, M.Sc.
Junior Scientist
Matthew Boyce, M.Sc.
Doctoral Candidate
Arielle Dolegui, M.P.H.
Doctoral Student
Juliana St. Goar
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Arturo Zequeira
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Key Projects
The Analysis and Mapping of Policies for Emerging Infectious Diseases (AMP EID) platform provides a landscape assessment of the policies and governance regimes relevant to emerging infectious diseases and outbreak response.
Explore AMP-EID at http://www.ampeid.org (new window)
The COVID Analysis and Mapping of Policies (COVID AMP) visualization tool is a comprehensive database of policies and plans used to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Explore COVID-AMP at http://www.covidamp.org (new window)
See our publication in Nature (new window)