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Aaron David Abraham Shakow, PhD

Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine

Dr. Aaron Shakow is a lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. From 2017-2021, he was director of the Initiative on Healing and Humanity at the Harvard-Dubai Center for Global Health Delivery, an interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars in the social sciences and humanities and frontline health care delivery institutions. A longtime member of Partners In Health, Dr. Shakow played a key role in the group's work on tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, serving as a policy adviser at the World Health Organization during the "3 x 5" campaign to expand global access to antiretroviral therapy.  He recently co-edited "Privilege and Impunity: The Struggle for Accountability in Global Health," forthcoming from Duke University Press. A current book project, with Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee, is titled "Bait and Switch: Democracy Versus Global Health." Dr. Shakow has taught history at Harvard, MIT and Brandeis, and edited the journal "Health and Human Rights." He received his PhD from Harvard University.

The intersections of Health and Human Rights.
Authors: Authors: Shakow A.
Health Hum Rights
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Strengthening health systems in poor countries: a code of conduct for nongovernmental organizations.
Authors: Authors: Pfeiffer J, Johnson W, Fort M, Shakow A, Hagopian A, Gloyd S, Gimbel-Sherr K.
Am J Public Health
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Limited good and limited vision: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and global health policy.
Authors: Authors: Yong Kim J, Shakow A, Mate K, Vanderwarker C, Gupta R, Farmer P.
Soc Sci Med
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Hope is a public health resource: the collective challenge of "3 by 5".
Authors: Authors: Shakow A.
Virtual Mentor
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The World Bank and poverty.
Authors: Authors: Lipton M, Shakow A.
Finance Dev
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