Policy advice & press

Policy

I have provided policy advice on global health financing to

• The Access to Medicines Campaign and The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR (via the UN Expert on Foreign Debt and Illicit Financial Flows Prof. Attiya Waris), which resulted in this letter to the IFC 08/06/2023

• The Paris Peace Forum (interview on financing pandemic preparedness and response) 02/5/2023

• The Wellcome Trust by advising on The Future of Global Health Initiatives process (23/3/2023)

• The Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development Cooperation (DGD) 12/2/2023

• The Paris Peace Forum (interview and publication feedback on financing pandemic preparedness and response, leading to this report) 23/9/2022

• The Expert Working Group on Global Public Investment, 28/10/2021

• The German Ethics Council on Global Vaccine Equity, in May 2021

• The Minister of International Development for Norway (meeting with Katerini Storeng & Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée in March 2021 on COVAX)

• The Open Society Foundation (interviews in 2019 on the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility & 2021 on COVAX)

• WHO Africa (in early 2020, via the work of Prof. Mark Woolhouse on COVID-19)

• Caris Foundation in Haiti (2019, on research ethics)

• Doctors without Borders (2018 on the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility)

Press

• Research on the spread of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa and COVAX has informed

  • Morgenbladet Den globale helseinnsatsen er mer enn buzzword 2/2/2023

  • Nature Omicron is supercharging the COVID vaccine booster debate 2/12/2021

  • Morgenbladet Norge har gitt 4 milliarder til pandemisamarbeid nesten ingen forstår 19/11/2021

  • The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Has COVAX failed on its promise to vaccinate the world 08/10/2021

  • The Lancet [Editorial by Pamela Das on Act-A] 2021

  • Wiener Zeitung Afrika, der ungeimpfte Kontinent [Interviewed about Covax by Florian Koch] 10/09/2021

  • BMJ How covid-19 revealed the scandal of medical oxygen supplies worldwide 373:n1166, 12/05/2021

  • Wiener Zeitung “Afrikas niedrige Zahlen könnten täuschen” 18/04/2020

• My work on global health financing, particularly on the World Bank’s “Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility” and COVAX featured in

  • Morgenbladet: ‘Pølsevev, nonsense eller bullshit – kall det hva du vil. Nå har norske helseforskere fått nok (Pølsevev, nonsense or bullshit - call it what you will. Now Norwegian health researchers have had enough)’ by Jon Kåre Time 13/1/2023 [PDF]

  • Harper’s Magazine: ‘No Pain No Gain’ by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein (July 2022)

  • Independent Australia: 'Pandemic bonds' squander global health funds for COVID-19 by Jeremy Nadel.

  • Finance and Commerce “Virus fails to trigger World Bank’s pandemic bonds” 13/04/2020

  • MENA FN “Deadly Virus fails to trigger World Bank’s pandemic bonds” 11/04/2020

  • Bloomberg “Deadly Virus fails to trigger World Bank’s pandemic bonds” 10/04/2020

  • Klassekampen “Bistanden havner på Wall Street” 06/04/2020

  • La Tribune “Coronavirus : les pandemic bonds, une fausse bonne idée ? 27/03/2020

  • Insurance Journal "Coronavirus Outbreak Exposes Flaws in Design of Pandemic Bonds” 23/03/2020

  • World Finance “A world of hurt: how pandemics such as COVID-19 affect the global economy” 20/03/2020

  • Associated Press “Pandemic bonds prove good for investors, less so for nations” 09/03/2020

• Insights from my book “Work Sleep Repeat” on the work and lives of management consultants has been used in

  • Vox Background interviews with Julia Belluz on the role of management consultants in healthcare 04/10/2019

  • BBC Radio 4 “The Age of Consultancy” by Richard Brooks 02/09/2019