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Gorik Ooms is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses extensively on global public health policies and epidemiology, with particular attention to global security, viral infections, outbreak responses, and health care systems. Their work spans social sciences and health professions, also incorporating subfields such as sociology and political science, organizational behavior and human resource management, general health professions, economics and econometrics, and infectious diseases.

Ooms's recent publications reflect a concentration on international health regulations, health system reforms, and the intersections between health coverage and global health security. Recent papers include:

  • Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak, 2020, The Lancet
  • 'It's far too complicated': why fragmentation persists in global health, 2020, Globalization and Health
  • Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations, 2020, The Lancet
  • Universal health coverage and primary health care: the 30 by 2030 campaign, 2020, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Lancet Commission on synergies between universal health coverage, health security, and health promotion, 2023, The Lancet

The primary outlets for Ooms's research are notable academic journals such as The Lancet, International Organizations Law Review, Globalization and Health, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and the American Journal of Public Health.

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Gian Luca Burci
  • Mark Eccleston-Turner
  • Steven J. Hoffman
  • Roojin Habibi
  • Thana Cristina de Campos

Ooms's thematic areas of research cover topics such as:

  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Global Security and Public Health
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Human Rights and Development

Their work ties together multiple disciplines and perspectives dealing with international health governance, health security during pandemics, and universal health coverage initiatives, contributing to discourse on organizational and policy responses in global health. This interdisciplinary approach is evident through both their publication record and the variety of fields and subfields associated with their research output.

Best Publications

  • The political origins of health inequity: prospects for change

    Ole Petter Ottersen;Jashodhara Dasgupta;Chantal Blouin;Paulo Buss

  • The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems?

    Gorik Ooms;Wim Van Damme;Brook K Baker;Paul Zeitz

  • The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development

    Lawrence O Gostin;John T Monahan;Jenny Kaldor;Mary DeBartolo

  • Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak.

    Roojin Habibi;Gian Luca Burci;Thana C de Campos;Danwood Chirwa

  • Performance-based financing in low-income and middle-income countries: isn’t it time for a rethink?

    Elisabeth Paul;Lucien Albert;Badibanga N’Sambuka Bisala;Oriane Bodson

  • Sexual and reproductive health of migrants: does the EU care?

    Ines Keygnaert;Aurore Guieu;Gorik Ooms;Gorik Ooms;Nicole Vettenburg

  • Rapid Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Treatment in Ethiopia: Successes and System-Wide Effects

    Yibeltal Assefa;Degu Jerene;Sileshi Lulseged;Gorik Ooms

  • Medicines without doctors: why the Global Fund must fund salaries of health workers to expand AIDS treatment.

    Gorik Ooms;Wim Van Damme;Marleen Temmerman

  • A global fund for the health MDGs

    Giorgio Cometto;Gorik Ooms;Ann Starrs;Paul Zeitz

  • Expenditure ceilings, multilateral financial institutions, and the health of poor populations

    Gorik Ooms;Ted Schrecker

  • 'It's far too complicated': why fragmentation persists in global health.

    Neil Spicer;Irene Agyepong;Trygye Ottersen;Albrecht Jahn

  • What Do Core Obligations under the Right to Health Bring to Universal Health Coverage

    Lisa Forman;Claudia Beiersmann;Claire E. Brolan;Martin McKee

  • The Joint Action and learning initiative: towards a global agreement on national and global responsibilities for health.

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Eric A. Friedman;Gorik Ooms;Thomas Gebauer

  • Is universal health coverage the practical expression of the right to health care

    Gorik Ooms;Gorik Ooms;Gorik Ooms;Laila A Latif;Attiya Waris;Claire E Brolan

  • Universal Health Coverage Anchored in the Right to Health

    Gorik Ooms;Claire Brolan;Natalie Eggermont;Asbjørn Eide

  • Financing the Millennium Development Goals for health and beyond: sustaining the ‘Big Push’.

    Gorik Ooms;David Stuckler;David Stuckler;Sanjay Basu;Martin McKee

  • Why the West is perceived as being unworthy of cooperation.

    Gorik Ooms

  • Shared Responsibilities for Health: A Coherent Global Framework for Health Financing. Final Report of the Centre on Global Health Security Working Group on Health Financing

    Røttingen, J.-, A;T Ottersen;A Ablo;D Arhin-Tenkorang

  • How can health remain central post-2015 in a sustainable development paradigm?

    Peter S Hill;Kent Buse;Claire E Brolan;Gorik Ooms

  • Crowding out: are relations between international health aid and government health funding too complex to be captured in averages only?

    Gorik Ooms;Kristof Decoster;Katabaro Miti;Katabaro Miti;Sabine Rens

  • Global health governance in the sustainable development goals: Is it grounded in the right to health?

    Remco Van de Pas;Remco Van de Pas;Peter S. Hill;Rachel Hammonds;Gorik Ooms;Gorik Ooms

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin Georgetown University
Devi Sridhar
Devi Sridhar University of Edinburgh
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David Stuckler
David Stuckler Bocconi University
Alicia Ely Yamin
Alicia Ely Yamin Harvard University
Wim Van Damme
Wim Van Damme Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Benjamin Mason Meier
Benjamin Mason Meier University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John-Arne Røttingen
John-Arne Røttingen The Research Council of Norway
Steven J. Hoffman
Steven J. Hoffman York University
Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Stanford University

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