Pandemics and International Security

Presented by the Global Health Security Theme of the CDSN in partnership with World Universities Network

Obijiofor Aginam, PhD has held senior positions in the United Nations as Senior Research Fellow & Chief of International Cooperation and Development in the United Nations University-Institute for Sustainability and Peace, UN University headquarters in Tokyo (2007-2013), and Deputy-Director and Head of Governance for Global Health, United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2013-2019). He is currently a Principal Visiting Fellow at UNU-IIGH, Adjunct Research Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and Visiting Research Fellow at UN University-Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium. He was tenured Associate Professor of Law at Carleton University, (2001-2007), and Global Health Leadership Officer at the World Health Organization headquarters, Geneva (1999-2001). He has been a fellow of the Social Science Research Council of New York on “Global Security and Cooperation”. Dr. Aginam has served as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) on trade and food safety involving field missions to Bangladesh and Laos. He was a member of the United Nations Inter-agency Taskforce on Non-communicable Diseases (2014-2019), and a visiting professor at the University for Peace, Costa Rica, and universities in Italy, South Africa, and Japan. He serves on the editorial board of Global Health Governance: The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm. Dr Aginam holds a PhD from University of British Columbia. He is the author of Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World.

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