Dr Eduardo Gomez
Senior Lecturer in International Development and Emerging Economies
Research interests
- International development
- Politics
- Policy
Biography
Dr Eduardo Gómez is a Senior Lecturer in International Development and Emerging Economies. A political scientist by training, his research focuses on the role of institutional theory in domestic and international health policy. More specifically, his research explores how formal and informal institutional designs and change processes shape domestic government and international agency responses to disease.
He has recently completed his first book titled, 'Contesting Epidemics: How Brazil outpaced the United States in its Policy Response as well as a second book titled The De-Emerging Nations? Understanding Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa's Struggle to Eradicate Disease.'
Prior to joining the Department of International Development, Eduardo was an assistant professor of public policy at Rutgers University in the USA, as well as a pre-doctoral fellow in the Politics and Governance Group of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has worked on a full-time basis for the RAND Corporation, the World Bank, the George Soros Foundation, and is a veteran of the US Air Force. Eduardo is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He holds a PhD in political science from Brown University, an AM degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.
Research
Eduardo's research investigates the international and domestic politics of public and environmental health policy in developing nations. Approached from a political science perspective combining theoretical frameworks in international relations and historical and contemporary institutional change theory, his work compares:
- how several emerging economies respond to a variety of diseases
- the role that civil society plays in domestic and global health policy responses
- the reform of international health agencies and their impact on domestic policy and governance.
PhD supervision
Eduardo is open to working with PhD students on topics ranging from global health policy, health institutions, policy, and governance, social welfare policy, and civic inclusion and policy participation in the emerging nations
Further details
Research
Political Economy & Institutions research group
Dissecting the problems of change, particularly looking at how societies face the challenge of becoming richer and more democratic.
Poverty, Inequality & Inclusive Growth research group
Exploring the causes of poverty in emerging economies and the factors that prevent people from escaping it, including who remains vulnerable to economic slow-downs.
Research
Political Economy & Institutions research group
Dissecting the problems of change, particularly looking at how societies face the challenge of becoming richer and more democratic.
Poverty, Inequality & Inclusive Growth research group
Exploring the causes of poverty in emerging economies and the factors that prevent people from escaping it, including who remains vulnerable to economic slow-downs.