Professional experience
My recent work has centred on WHO’s programme of work on the commercial determinants of health, the 2025 UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health, and the WHO FCTC. Below is a reverse-chronological record; for academic and technical outputs see Publications, and for talks, panels, and posters see Convening, invited contributions and conferences.
World Health Organization — Consultant
- Technical lead and principal author of the WHO Global Report on the Commercial Determinants of Health (forthcoming 2026): first drafts across the report, methodology development, and coordination of contributors. Two companion papers forthcoming in The Lancet (lead author of one, among first authors of the other).
- Leading development of a WHO implementation framework for the 2025 Political Declaration of the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health.
- Core WHO Secretariat team for the 2025 UN HLM4 on NCDs and Mental Health — evidence review through zero drafts, the September High-Level Meeting in New York, and UNGA adoption.
- Co-author of the WHO FCTC and Illicit Trade chapters of the 2025 and 2023 editions of the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic. The 2025 edition was launched at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin.
- Briefed the WHO SEARO regional consultation on commercial determinants of health (Bangkok, October 2023), with representatives from nearly all South-East Asian Member States.
- Second author, “A Medical Ethics Framework for Conversational Artificial Intelligence”, Journal of Medical Internet Research (2023).
O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law — Fellow and Consultant
- Led development of the HIV Language Compendium — a living negotiating aid and advocacy tool launched at the 24th International AIDS Conference, Montreal 2022.
- PI and first author of a scoping review and report for Love Alliance on law and policy determinants of community-led responses for sexual and reproductive health and rights (2022–2023).
- Contributing author, “The Future of Pandemic Vaccine Access”, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics (2022); and the GHSN policy report on COVID-19 Vaccines and Intellectual Property (2021).
World Health Organization — Consultant and Intern
- Legal research and writing on regulatory approaches for preventing and controlling NCDs, and on responding to commercial interference and litigation threats.
- Lead researcher and author, section 4.2 “SCARE tactic C: Court and legal challenges”, and co-author/technical contributor to sections 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6 of the WHO Technical Manual on Tobacco Tax Policy and Administration.
- Co-authored the FCTC and Illicit Trade chapter of the 2021 WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic.
- First author, “The WHO FCTC’s lessons for addressing the commercial determinants of health”, Health Promotion International (2021, WHO Special Supplement).
Early career
O’Neill Institute — Legal Research Assistant
Research for Professor Lawrence Gostin and Eric Friedman on legal frameworks for palliative care, and the legal, diplomatic and technical aspects of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework.
Food and Agriculture Organization — Legal Researcher
Research on the status of funding agreements under the FAO Constitution and international law, supervised by Gian Luca Burci (Geneva Graduate Institute) and Donata Rugarabamu (FAO Legal Counsel).
Ipas — Legal Researcher
Research on the right to access medical abortion under international law, supervised by Patty Skuster.
University of Auckland, Faculty of Law — Research Assistant
- Professor Ron Paterson: independent reviews for the NZ Defence Force on the Veterans’ Support Act 2014 (report tabled in the New Zealand Parliament) and, for the Medical Board of Australia and AHPRA, the independent review of the use of chaperones to protect patients in Australia (2017).
- Dr Anaru Erueti: indigenous rights and the evolution of international human rights law (summer research scholarship).
- Dr An Hertogen: due diligence in international law.
- Professor Paul Rishworth QC: human rights law research.
Hong Kong Court of Appeal — Judicial Marshal
The University of Hong Kong — Legal Research Assistant
Research for Professor Johannes Chan SC on active constitutional and human rights casework.
See also: My background · Publications · Convening, invited contributions and conferences.