Rate My Professor Sharifah Sekalala

Sharifah Sekalala is a Professor of Global Health Law in the School of Law at the University of Warwick. She earned her PhD in Law from the University of Warwick in 2012, an LLM in Public International Law with distinction in research from the University of Nottingham in 2006, and an LLB Honours from Makerere University, Uganda, in 2004. Called to the Ugandan Bar in 2005, she has consulted on human rights and health for international organizations such as UNAIDS, the World Health Organization, and the International Labour Organisation. In her career at Warwick, she holds positions as Deputy Head of School and Social Inclusion Champion, Director of the Centre for Global Health Law, and Director of the Warwick Global Health Centre. She also serves as a Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and Co-Director of the University of Toronto/Warwick Global Health and Human Rights Training Program. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Honorary Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health.

Her interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of international law, public policy, and global health, with a focus on global health crises, the role of human rights frameworks in addressing inequalities, health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa, international financing institutions, and the rise of non-communicable diseases. She has published extensively in leading journals on these topics. Key works include her book Soft Law and Global Health Problems: Lessons from responses to HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (Cambridge University Press, paperback 2018), "Colonialism in the new digital health agenda" (BMJ Global Health, 2024), "Health and human rights are inextricably linked in the COVID-19 response" (BMJ Global Health, 2020), and "Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine" (BMJ Global Health, 2021). Her research has received funding from the Wellcome Trust, ESRC, GCRF, Open Society Foundations, and international organizations. Additional honors include the Feminist Legal Studies Editor's Article Prize 2024, shared for work on feminist approaches to medical supply chains during pandemics. She contributes to policy as a member of the ESRC Strategic Advisory Network.