Professor Sharifah Sekalala FHEA FAcSS

Professor of Global Health Law, School of Law, University of Warwick

I am an interdisciplinary researcher whose work is at the intersection of international law, public policy, and global health. I am primarily interested in global health crises and the impact of law in curbing inequalities. I often use a human rights framework in my analysis. I am a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

I am currently leading a Wellcome funded interdisciplinary research project on health apps in Sub Saharan Africa. The project team will evaluate the data protection regimes and engage with key stakeholders in Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, to establish the extent to which they protect their citizens’ health data, especially in cross-border Health activities. Focusing on law, bioethics, entrepreneurship, epidemiology and policy makers, the project aims to bring together various stakeholders to empirically investigate how health apps are operating in practice, whether new forms of regulation are adequate in responding to potential problems, how different stakeholders perceive the regulatory framework and how we can create better regulatory frameworks.

My work won the Feminist Legal Prize in 2024 with Ania Zbyszewska for our work that called for a re imagining of supply chains in accordance with feminist approaches that place care at the centre of supply chains for pandemics as being central to imagining Global Health law.

I am interested in supervising doctoral students whose work broadly relates to Global Health Law.