Dr. Obijiofor Aginam is a Principal Visiting Fellow at UNU-IIGH. His expertise cuts across global health governance, globalization of public health, impacts of global/regional trade agreements on health, health and human rights, public-private partnerships, food safety, South-South cooperation, and the regulatory/normative authorities of inter-governmental organizations.
Dr. Aginam has authored numerous publications including Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World (2005); Humanizing Our Global Order: Essays in Honor of Ivan Head (2003); HIV/AIDS and the Security Sector in Africa (2012); The Global Governance of HIV/AIDS: Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines (2013). He is an active member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and served as co-director of the 2009 ACUNS summer workshop on “Global Public-Private Partnerships”.
He has worked with African civil society organizations on aspects of global health and environmental governance, health and trade, human rights, and sustainable development. He has served on the expert advisory panels of WHO and FAO on aspects of trade, globalization, food safety and public health involving field missions to Bangladesh and Lao People’s Democratic Republic.