Articles

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Salisbury, L., Vargha, D., Diniz, D., Brito, L., Sankoh, O., Wurie, H. R., Yillah, R. M., Sekalala, S., Dubois, C., Chan, E. Y. Y., Perera, Y., Ogden, R., & Kingori, P. (2025). The end, and what comes after. The Lancet, 405(10474), 192–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00044-3

Sekalala, S., Rawson, B., & Andanda, P. (2025). A socio-legal critique of the commercialization of digital health in sub-Saharan Africa. Policy Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2025.2451966

de Campos-Rudinsky, T. C., Bosha, S. L., Wainstock, D., Sekalala, S., Venkatapuram, S., & Atuire, C. A. (2024). Decolonising global health: Why the new Pandemic Agreement should have included the principle of subsidiarity. The Lancet. Global Health, 12(7), e1200–e1203. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00186-4

Sekalala, S., & Chatikobo, T. (2024, February 27). Colonialism in the new digital health agenda. BMJ Global Health, 9(2), Article e014131.https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-014131

Sekalala, S., Lake, S., Hodges, S., & Perera, Y. (2024). Navigating time equity: Balancing urgency and inclusivity in pandemic treaty negotiations. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(4), Article e0003118. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003118

Shaw, J., Sekalala, S., & Fiske, A. (2024). The urgent need for health data justice in precision medicine. The American Journal of Bioethics, 24(3), 101–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2024.2303141

Eccleston-Turner, M., Burci, G.-L., Liberman, J., & Sekalala, S. (2023). Implementation, compliance, and pandemic legal obligations. Science, 380(6647), 792–794. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh2080

Heidari, S., Torreele, E., Gülmezoglu, A. M., Sekalala, S., Burke-Shyne, N., & Chappuis, G. L. (2023). A gender-responsive Pandemic Accord is needed for a healthier, equitable future. The Lancet, 402(10418), 2176–2179. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02038-X

Sekalala, S., & Uberoi, D. (2023). Regime shifting by multinational corporations within constitutional courts in developing countries: Analysing tobacco litigation. African Journal of Legal Studies, 15(4), 456–485. https://doi.org/10.1163/17087384-12340097

Zbyszewska, A., & Sekalala, S. (2023). Towards a feminist geo-legal ethic of caring within medical supply chains: Lessons from careless supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. Feminist Legal Studies, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-023-09520-1

Bueno de Mesquita, J., Lougarre, C., Montel, L., & Sekalala, S. (2022). Lodestar in the Time of Coronavirus? Interpreting International Obligations to Realise the Right to Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Human Rights Law Review, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngac036

Forman, L., Sekalala, S., & Meier, B. M. (2022). The World Health Organization, international health regulations and human rights law. International Organizations Law Review, 19(1), 37–62. https://doi.org/10.1163/15723747-19010002

Maccaro, A., Piaggio, D., Leesurakarn, S., Husen, N., Sekalala, S., Rai, S., & Pecchia, L. (2022). On the universality of medical device regulations: The case of Benin. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), 1031. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08396-2

Meier, B. M., Bueno de Mesquita, J., Burci, G. L., Chirwa, D., Dagron, S., Eccleston-Turner, M., Forman, L., Gostin, L. O., Habibi, R., Negri, S., Phelan, A., Sekalala, S., Taylor, A., Villarreal, P. A., Yamin, A. E., & Hoffman, S. J. (2022). Travel restrictions and variants of concern: Global health laws need to reflect evidence. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 100(3), 178–178A. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.21.287735

Sekalala, S., Williams, C. R., & Meier, B. M. (2022). Global health governance through the UN Security Council: Health security vs. human rights? Australian Journal of International Affairs, 76(1), 27–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2021.2017843

Smith, M. J., Forman, L., Parker, M., Perehudoff, K., Rawson, B., & Sekalala, S. (2021). Should COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use be considered "essential" medicines? Health and Human Rights, 23(1), 145–150. https://www.hhrjournal.org/2021/06/should-covid-19-vaccines-authorized-for-emergency-use-be-considered-essential-medicines/

Cousins, T., Pentecost, M., Alvergne, A., Chandler, C., Chigudu, S., Herrick, C., Kelly, A., Leonelli, S., Lezaun, J., Lorimer, J., Reubi, D., & Sekalala, S. (2021). The changing climates of global health. BMJ Global Health, 6(3), Article e005442. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005442

Sekalala, S., & Masud, H. (2021). Soft law possibilities in global health law. The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 49(1), 152–155. https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2021.20

Sekalala, S., Perehudoff, K., Parker, M., Forman, L., Rawson, B., & Smith, M. (2021). An intersectional human rights approach to prioritising access to COVID-19 vaccines. BMJ Global Health, 6(2), Article e004462. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004462

Munro, V. E. (& Sekalala). (2021). Feminist judgments projects at the intersection. Feminist Legal Studies, 29(2), 251–261.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-020-09428-0

Sekalala, S., Forman, L., Hodgson, T., Mulumba, M., Namyalo-Ganafa, H., & Meier, B. M. (2021). Decolonising human rights: How intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine. BMJ Global Health, 6(7), Article e006169. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006169

Sekalala, S. (2021). Categorising the gendered harms to caregivers during humanitarian emergencies: An analysis of law and practice during Ebola crises. Social and Legal Studies, 30(6), 825–847. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920974433

Masud, H., Gill, P., Sekalala, S., & Oyebode, O. (2020). Tracking progress of tobacco control in Pakistan against the MPOWER package of interventions: Challenges and opportunities. International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases, 5(1), 16–21. https://doi.org/10.4103/jncd.jncd_42_19

Sekalala, S. et al. (2020). Analysing the human rights impact of increased digital public health surveillance in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Health and Human Rights Journal, 22(2), 7–20.

Sekalala, S., Masud, H., & Bosco, R. T. (2020). Human rights mechanisms for anti-corruption, transparency and accountability: Enabling the right to health. Global Health Action, 13(sup1), Article 1699343. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1699343

Sekalala, S., & Harrington, J. (2020). Communicable Diseases, Health Security, and Human Rights: From AIDS to Ebola. In L. O. Gostin, B. M. Meier (Eds.), Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights (pp. 221–242). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197528297.003.0011

Sekalala, S., & Kirya, M. (2020). A Critique of Corruption as Social Injustice in the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria: The example of Uganda. In s. Adelman & A. Paliwala (Eds), Beyond Law and Development: Resistance, Empowerment and Social Injustice. Routledge.

Sekalala, S., Dagron, S., Forman, L., & Meier, B. M. (2020). Analyzing the human rights impact of increased digital public health surveillance during the COVID-19 crisis. Health and Human Rights, 22(2), 7–20.

Sekalala, S., Forman, L., Habibi, R., & Meier, B. M. (2020). Health and human rights are inextricably linked in the COVID-19 response. BMJ Global Health, 5(9), Article e003359. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003359

Habibi, R., Burci, G. L., de Campos, T. C., Chirwa, D., Cinà, M., Dagron, S., Eccleston-Turner, M., Forman, L., Gostin, L. O., Meier, B. M., Negri, S., Ooms, G., Sekalala, S., Taylor, A., Yamin, A. E., & Hoffman, S. J. (2020). Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Lancet, 395(10225), 664–666. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30373-1

Habibi, R., Hoffman, S. J., Burci, G. L., de Campos, T. C., Chirwa, D., Cinà, M., Dagron, S., Eccleston-Turner, M., Forman, L., Gostin, L. O., Meier, B. M., Negri, S., Ooms, G., Sekalala, S., Taylor, A., & Yamin, A. E. (2020). The Stellenbosch consensus on legal national responses to public health risks: Clarifying article 43 of the international health regulations. International Organizations Law Review, 19(1), 90–157. https://doi.org/10.1163/15723747-2020023

Sekalala, S., & Haastrup, T. (2018). What have rights got to do with it? Evaluating "human rights as practice within the global Fund". Global Health Governance, 12(1), 75–86.

Sekalala, S. R. (2017). Who gets to sit at the table? Interrogating the failure of participatory approaches within a right to health framework. The International Journal of Human Rights, 21(7), 976–1001. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2017.1322066

Sekalala, S. R., & Kirya, M. T. (2015). Challenges in Multi-level Health Governance: Corruption in the Global Fund's operations in Uganda and Zambia. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 7(1), 141–151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-015-0010-x

Harrison, J., & Sekalala, S. (2015). Addressing the compliance gap? UN initiatives to benchmark the human rights performance of states and corporations. Review of International Studies, 41(5), 925–945. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026021051500039X

Lisk, F., Šehović, A. B., & Sekalala, S. (2015). Health and Human Security: A wrinkle in time or a new paradigm? Contemporary Politics, 21(1), 25–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2014.993908

Sekalala, S. (2015). Normative considerations underlying global health financing: Lessons for the framework convention on global health. Global Health Governance, 9(1), 22–40.

Sekalala, S. (2014). Towards a better understanding of financing the right to health: A case study of the Global Fund. In Carby-Hall, J. R. (Ed.), Essays on human rights: A celebration of the life of Dr. Janusz Kochanoswski (pp. 389–416). Jus et Lux, Poland.

Sekalala, S. R. (2010). Third World Access to Essential Medicines and the WTO General Council Decision 2003. King's Law Journal, 21(1), 172–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/09615768.2010.11423699

Other Commentaries and Blogs (selected)

Sekalala, S. & Esom, K. (2024). Law, Human Rights, and the Pandemic Response: Reflecting on the South African HIV Response 25 years later. Health and Human Rights, 26(1), 21-25.

Sekalala, S, Rawson, B. (2023). Manufacturing Inequality: Examining the Racial-Capitalist Logics behind Global Pandemic Vaccine Production. Afronomics Law. https://www.afronomicslaw.org/category/analysis/manufacturing-inequality-examining-racial-capitalist-logics-behind-global

Wright, K. & Sekalala,S. (2020, 16 November). Human Rights and the Ethical Conduct of Research in Emergencies: Expanding the role of duty-bearers for Human Rights Science and Pandemics. Global Campus of Human Rights. https://gchumanrights.org/preparedness/article-on/human-rights-and-the-ethical-conduct-of-research-in-emergencies-expanding-the-role-of-duty-bearers.html

Sekalala, S. & Rawson, B. (2020, 8 July). Navigating the Paradoxes of Selective COVID-19 Border Closures. University of Oxford Border Criminologies. https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2020/07/navigating

Public-Facing Scholarship

Sekalala, S. & Masud, H. (2021). The Universal Periodic Review process: A strategy to tackle health sector corruption. CMI Publications. https://www.u4.no/publications/the-universal-periodic-review-process

Written Evidence to UK Parliament: COVO102 (2020) https://committees.parliament.uk/work/218/the-governments-response-to-covid19-human-rights-implications/publications/written-evidence/?page=3

Written Evidence to UK Parliament: COVO195 (2020) https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/9203/pdf/

International Organisations Bulletin. (2013). UNAIDS 2012 Reports on International Organisations, American Society of International Law.

World Bank. (2011). Beyond Doha: Seeking access to essential medicines through the WTO. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTRAD/Resources/SSekalala.pdf