Global Health Politics Workshop: Spring 2026

Thursday, February 12 • 4 to 5:30 PM

Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China

Yan Long, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Asia and and the Dept. of Sociology

Thursday, March 5 • 4 to 5:30 PM

A Political Economy of Inequality and Pandemics

Matthew Kavanagh, Associate Professor & Director, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics, Georgetown University

Co-sponsored by the BU Politics & Health Lab, the Center on Emerging Infectious Disease, the Health Law Program, and the Dept. of Political Science.

Thursday, April 2 • 9 to 10:30 AM (via Zoom only)

Health, Knowledge, Politics: Understanding the Triad

Madhulika Banerjee. Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Asia and the Dept. of Political Science

Thursday, April 16 • 4 to 5:30 AM

Care without Pathology: How Trans-Health Activists Are Changing Medicine

Christoph Lynn Hanssmann, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies, University of California, Davis

Co-sponsored by the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Dept. of Sociology