{"id":5211,"date":"2023-11-16T16:05:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T21:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5211"},"modified":"2024-01-11T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:42:23","slug":"joseph-harris-phd","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/about-the-center\/team\/joseph-harris-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Harris, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Harris is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University and one the leading scholars of health politics and policy in low-and-middle-income countries today. His book, <a href=\"http:\/\/josephharris.net\/index.php\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism<\/a> (Cornell University Press 2017), examined how and why resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to democracy. Achieving Access is one of the first books to examine struggles to institutionalize universal access to healthcare and medicine in the industrializing world comparatively (exploring Thailand, Brazil, and South Africa), and it has been used to teach officials within the Thailand\u2019s Ministry of Public Health about comparative health systems. While he has won two Fulbrights for his research on health politics in Thailand, he has published on issues related to the politics of healthcare access and infectious disease response on a broader range of countries that include Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and others. <span>At Boston University, he directs the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/global-health-politics-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\"><span>Global Health Politics Workshop<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><span>\u00a0He is currently Vice Chair of the International Studies Association\u2019s Global Health Section,<\/span>\u00a0Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, past Associate Editor of Social Science and Medicine, and an Editorial Board member at Health Systems and Reform and Studies in Comparative International Development. He regularly contributes to stories in major media outlets, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/06\/28\/884458999\/universal-health-care-supports-thailands-coronavirus-strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Public Radio<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2018\/12\/01\/how-do-resource-constrained-countries-commit-to-universal-health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-countries\/articles\/2018-12-17\/commentary-what-the-us-could-learn-from-thailand-about-health-care-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. News and World Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16289,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5309,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5211\/revisions\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ceid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}