Global Health Governance

The Global Health Governance Research Group is led by Devi Sridhar. Their research covers how global institutions, finances and laws influence global public health.

Research in a Nutshell

This group researches how global institutions, finance and rules can better serve the needs of people across the world.  

The three core areas of research within the group include: 

  • Improving the effectiveness of international health organisations
  • Tracking financing to global public health
  • Improving global health security

The group's work is conducted in close collaboration with Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Health and Finance and researchers in countries across the world, as well as policy-makers in international institutions such as the WHO, World Bank and UNICEF.

Photograph of the Global Health Governance Research Group
Global Health Governance Research Group, September 2019

Key People

NameRole
Devi SridharGlobal Health Governance Research Group Lead | Professor of Global Public Health 
Lorna ThompsonProgramme Administrator 

Themes and Keywords

Scientific Themes

Global Health; Infectious Disease; Public Health Policy; Universal Health Coverage; World Health Organisation

Methodology Keywords

Policy Research; Qualitative Research; Quantitative Research

Projects

Current Projects

  • The Economic Gaze: The World Banks Influence on Global Public Health (Funder: WT Wellcome Trust)
  • Working Group on Global Health Security and Universal Health Coverage (Funder: Georgetown, DfID)

Completed Projects

  • NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE) [Funder: NIHR]
  • EU FP-7 Consortium on Global Goals for Health

Publications

  • Sridhar, D. (2025), How Not to Die (Too Soon): The Lies We've Been Told and the Policies That Can Save Us (Penguin/Viking)
  • Sridhar, D. (2022), Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One (Penguin/Viking)
  • Clinton, C. and Sridhar, D. (2017), Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
  • Sridhar, D. (2008), The Battle Against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance and the World Bank (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

  • Fernandes, G., Hassan, I., Sridhar, D. Building resilient healthcare supply chains to manage pandemics like COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2022;
  • Rahman, AE., Jabeen, S., Fernandes, G., Banik, G., Islam, I., Ameen, S., Ashrafee, S., Hossain, AT., Husham, MSA., Majid, T., Ashfia, S., Ahmed, A., ANM Ehtesham, K., Mohammod, JC., Ahmed, S., Khan, M., Jackson, T., Dockrell, D., Nair, H., El Arifeen, S., Islam, MS., Campbell, H. Introducing pulse oximetry in routine IMCI services in Bangladesh: a context-driven approach to influence policy and programme through stakeholder engagement. Journal of Global Health 2022;
  • Tichenor, Marlee, Janelle Winters, Katerini T. Storeng, Jesse Bump, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Martin Gorsky, Mark Hellowel, Patrick Kadama, Katherine Kenny, Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Francisco Songane, Alexis Walker, Ryan Whitacre, Sumegha Asthana, Genevie Fernandez, Felix Stein and Devi Sridhar (2021) ‘Interrogating the World Bank’s Role in Global Health Knowledge Production, Governance and Finance.’ Globalization and Health

Primary Contact

Lorna Thompson

Programme Administrator

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