Associate Professor of #Sociology @BU_Tweets #research on #politics of #UHC & infectious disease response / runs #GlobalHealth Politics Workshop @BUPardeeCenter
Joined December 2016
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18 Nov 2025
My oped in The Hill on why now is the time for Republicans to embrace the public option thehill.com/opinion/healthca… @BUexperts @BUSPH @BU_HSM @BU_CAS @Collective_hlth @BostonUResearch @HHSGov @WhiteHouse @CMSGov @GOP @BU_HSM @BUPardeeSchool @BillCassidy @GOPDoctors @GregMurphyMD
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May 15
Great conversation with Lioba Hirsch on #Antiblackness & #GlobalHealth on @GHPPodcast. Check it out at globalhealthpoliticspodcast.… @AlexandreHandf4 @Emassard @scottlgreer @TimothyWSchwab @GVAGrad_GHC @GATS_ASA @G2H2_Geneva @CUGHnews @BUSPH @BUSPH_epiPhD @EdinburghUni
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A new episode w Lioba Hirsch on #Antiblackness and Global Health just dropped last week on the #GlobalHealth #Politics #Podcast. Come check out our cutting-edge conversations at globalhealthpoliticspodcast.… @PIH @Oxfam @MSF_USA @MSF @PHMglobal @WHO @PeoplesCDC @CDCGlobal @GDP_Center
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On the latest episode of his @GHPPodcast, CEID faculty @JosephHarrisBU talks with Dr. Lioba Hirsch about global health governance and infectious disease response in Africa.
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Apr 30
In the latest episode of @GHPPodcast I talk to Lioba Hirsch about her book #Antiblackness & #GlobalHealth from @PlutoPress globalhealthpoliticspodcast.… @AlexandreHandf4 @PeoplesCDC @GVAGrad_GHC @JenniferNuzzo @EdwineBarasa @AllianceHPSR @RHdeGaspi @asia_ilse @JayaMathur09 @craigjanes
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Apr 14
The latest episode of the #GlobalHealth #Politics #Podcast is fire! Come check out our conversations with @katharina_kra and @brookebocast at globalhealthpoliticspodcast.…
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Just a month left to submit your abstracts to the Social Science & Medicine Call for Abstracts for the Special Issue on Polarization and Health Policy in Global Context, edited by Nora Kenworthy & me. Abstracts due April 30. For more information visit sciencedirect.com/special-is…
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The latest episode of the @GHPPodcast from @JosephHarrisBU includes conversations with @katharina_kra and @brookebocast on their respective research, covering very different forms of global health research.
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Mar 30
The latest @GHPPodcast conversation with @katharina_kra & @brookebocast just dropped! Interested in #globalhealth? Give it a listen at globalhealthpoliticspodcast.… @AlexandreHandf4 @globalhealth_de @tiagottasca @luciavitale_ @Thurka149 @mendenhall_em @HanriederTine @victorroy
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Mar 27
A new @GHPPodcast episode drops Monday! For now, check out our convo w @repoyedc. A #pharmacist, Dr. Owolewa serves as #ShadowRepresentative to #Congress for #DC. He talks #publichealth & DC #statehood as a candidate for DC Council podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Mar 21
My colleagues @JosephHarrisBU and Nora Kenworthy are editing a special issue of Social Science & Medicine on "Polarization and Health Policy in a Global Context," and I want to make sure this reaches everyone it should.
The premise is as simple as it is overdue: polarization is not just a political problem. It is a health problem. It shapes who gets care, which evidence counts, and whether public health institutions can function at all. Yet the research connecting political divisions to health policy remains remarkably thin, especially given how much the world has changed since COVID. Submissions due October 1, 2026.
If I didn't have a book deadline of my own, I'd be writing something on how illiberal political economies systematically erode health governance. Someone should.
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Mar 12
🦠 Six years after WHO declared #COVID19 a global emergency, @JosephHarrisBU (@BU_Tweets) draws upon his research to explain what the pandemic revealed about U.S. public health & international cooperation in our latest episode.
🎧 Listen now: scholars.org/podcast/what-di…
ALT A teal-colored square graphic for the No Jargon podcast from the Scholars Strategy Network. At the top, text reads 'Episode 294: What Did We Learn From Covid?' with a microphone icon and green audio waveform graphic. A large pull quote states: 'What can we learn from that time? Very sadly, I'd say we learned a lot about the limits of global solidarity, but also the lack of solidarity in the U.S.' Below the quote is a circular headshot of a smiling man with glasses, identified as Joseph Harris from Boston University. The No Jargon logo appears in the bottom right corner.
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On the latest episode of @SSNScholars's @NoJargonPodcast, CEID faculty @JosephHarrisBU (@BU_CAS) discussed how the erosion of trust in public health is contributing to recent health crises like increasing numbers of measles outbreaks.
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Mar 3
Six years after WHO declared Covid-19 a global emergency, are we any better prepared for the next pandemic? In our latest episode, @JosephHarrisBU (@BU_Tweets) reflects on what Covid has revealed about the U.S. public health system.
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Feb 27
It’s my pleasure to appear on the @GHPPodcast
Feb 27
In the latest @GHPPodcast, I talk w/ @repoyedc. A pharmacist, Dr. Owolewa serves as Shadow Representative to Congress for the nation's capital at a time when the district is under federal occupation. Hear his thoughts on #Medicaid, #publichealth & more at bit.ly/4kWNsrc
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In the latest @GHPPodcast, I talk w/ @repoyedc. A pharmacist, Dr. Owolewa serves as Shadow Representative to Congress for the nation's capital at a time when the district is under federal occupation. Hear his thoughts on #Medicaid, #publichealth & more at bit.ly/4kWNsrc
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Check out our conversation with @johngreen on the #GlobalHealth #Politics #Podcast on his new book Everything is #Tuberculosis podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… #TB #publichealth @PIH @StopTB @WHO_Europe_TB @StopTBUSA @StopTB_ETT @IHPblog @BUCEID @BUexperts @BUPardeeSchool @GHPPodcast
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On the latest episode of the @GHPPodcast, CEID faculty Dr. @JosephHarrisBU talks with @johngreen, the best-selling author of "Everything is Tuberculosis," about the social injustices of this largely poverty-driven disease.
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"We've known how to deal with TB curatively since the 1950s, & here we are, still losing over a million people every year to it. That just says so much about the world in which we find ourselves," says @johngreen.
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