Anne Roemer-Mahler

Anne Roemer-Mahler is an Associate Professor in International Relations at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, where she also serves as Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Health Policy. Originally from Germany, she completed her DPhil at the Oxford Department of International Development and previously worked as a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Her academic career spans over a decade at Sussex, where she has established herself as a leading scholar at the intersection of international relations and global health governance.

Her educational background includes:

• DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford
• MPhil from the University of Oxford
• MA from the University of Hamburg, Germany
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Anne's research program centers on global health governance, with particular emphasis on health security, access to medicines, and the role of pharmaceuticals in global health contexts. Her work takes historical approaches and incorporates decolonial/postcolonial analyses to examine how health has become understood as a 'global' issue shaped by social and political processes. She has conducted extensive research on the role of the Indian pharmaceutical industry in HIV/AIDS access to medicines debates and more recently has focused on 'health security' in Africa, particularly the emergence of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Her current research examines antibiotic resistance through a One Health lens in the Nile Valley region (Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia).

Her publication record shows consistent output in high-impact journals, with articles in International Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, and Security Dialogue. Her work demonstrates how global health governance reflects broader power dynamics in international relations, with particular attention to how African perspectives are reshaping traditional global health architectures. Her research on Ebola, pharmaceutical policy, and antimicrobial resistance has been widely cited and has influenced academic and policy debates.

Her research funding includes multiple grants from prestigious organizations:

• Academy of Medical Sciences: 'One Health Platform to Reduce the Emergence and Spread of Antibiotic Resistance in the Nile Valley' (2020-2022)
• Wellcome Trust: 'How to study the politics of global health security?' (2020-2021)
• National Institute for Health Research: 'Social Sciences for Severe Stigmatising Skin Diseases' (2019-2023)
• British Academy: 'Collaborating for Global Health Security: The new Africa CDC' (2018-2019)

She teaches 'Business in World Politics,' 'The Global Politics of Health,' and 'The International Politics of Health,' where she explores how companies shape global politics, how health is shaped by social and political processes, and the historical and political dimensions of global health. She welcomes PhD students working on global health governance, particularly those with interests in historical approaches, decolonial/postcolonial analyses, health security in Africa, and the role of technologies in global health governance.