I’m a sociologist & organizer based in Burlington, VT.
I study global health organizations, social movements, and their struggles over scientific knowledge.
Currently: Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont and organizing with Defend Public Health.
Previously: Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Infectious Disease Ethics at the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics & the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford, Boston University, Northwestern University, Partners In Health, Right to Health Action, GlobeMed.
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Academic Research
Obstetric-Related Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act Violations and No Health Exception Bans
'We can see a savage': a case study of the colonial gaze in generative Al algorithms
Reimagine Aid, Don't Destroy It
The Spatial Patterning of Recent Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act Violations in the United
Training clinicians to be organizers: Expanding professional identities through a year-long Climate
Building health systems capable of leveraging Al: applying Paul Farmer's 5S framework for equitable
Coercing for public health: reflections on the role of coercion in public health emergencies
Coercing for public health: (when) is coercion ethically justified?
Global health photography behind the façade of empowerment and decolonisation
The elephant in the room: reflecting on text-to-image generative AI and global health images
Health Professionals Organizing for Climate Action: A Novel Community Organizing Fellowship
Diversity in the medical research ecosystem: a descriptive scientometric analysis
Invisibility in global health: A case for disturbing bioethical frameworks
Embodied contradictions, structural power: Patient organizers in the movement for global health just
The Gates Foundation's new AI initiative: attempting to leapfrog global health inequalities?
Knowledge, boundaries, and bodies: Social construction between medical sociology and STS
Human capital, risk and the World Bank's reintermediation in global development
Comparing disciplinary engagement in global health research across the social sciences
Preparing Doctors in Training for Health Activist Roles: A Cross-Institutional Community Organizing
The origins of the 4 × 4 framework for noncommunicable disease at the World Health Organization
