Director
O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Washington, DC, United States
Matthew M. Kavanagh, PhD, directs Georgetown University's Global Health Policy & Politics Initiative at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and is Assistant Professor of Global Health and Visiting Professor of Law. A political scientist by training, with a long history of work in global health policy and politics, he recently served at the United Nations as Deputy Executive Director ad interim and Special Advisor at UNAIDS. His research and writing focuses on the political economy of health policy in low- and middle-income countries and the political impact of human and constitutional rights on population health. He has done research and policy work in in South Africa, Malawi, Haiti, Lesotho, India, and Thailand and was a visiting researcher at the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights, and International Law in Johannesburg. Grants for this work have come from the National Science Foundation, USAID, U.S. State Department, World Health Organization, amfAR: foundation for AIDS research, and others. He has served on various scientific and technical advisory bodies for UNAIDS and the World Health Organization and on the council of the American Political Science Association Health Politics and Policy Section.
Prior to his academic positions, Dr. Kavanagh led transnational policy efforts at NGOs in the U.S. and Southern Africa focused on HIV and tuberculosis treatment, international trade, and water rights. He has presented his research and analysis before the U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Right to Health, members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, and the U.S. Trade Representative.
His work has appeared in The Lancet, Foreign Policy, JAMA, Journal of International Affairs, Studies in Comparative International Development, Health & Human Rights and other leading journals and he have been interviewed in outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and Science on the politics of global health.
Dr. Kavanagh holds a PhD in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, certificate in health law from Penn Law, Masters in communities and policy from Harvard University, and BA from Vassar College
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
283 - Closing Plenary – PEPFAR: A Model for Global Public Health Intervention
Sunday, October 15, 2023
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM US ET
Sunday, October 15, 2023
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM US ET