Sophie Harman
Sophie Harman is Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, and has over fifteen years of experience working on global health politics. She has conducted research and gathered stories from across the world, in countries such as Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia and the global health hubs of Geneva and Washington DC. She advised the UK government on global health security during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2016 she was selected to join the BBC’s Expert Women programme, and in 2019 was nominated for a BAFTA for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer for the narrative feature film about Tanzanian women living with HIV/Aids she co-wrote and produced, Pili.
Sophie was awarded the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding achievement by a mid-career scholar and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2018. Her first book for the general reader, Sick of It, an investigation into the malign effects of global politics on women’s health, is published by Virago, and has been shortlisted for the 2025 British Academy Book Prize.
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