Shajoe Lake
Shajoe is pursuing a PhD in global health law on a UKRI ESRC doctoral scholarship at the University of Warwick. His research sits at the intersection of critical political economy, aesthetics, international law and global health. He is currently a research assistant on a Wellcome Trust funded interdisciplinary research project on health apps in sub-Saharan Africa. He uses co-creation methods to analyze data protection frameworks and engages key stakeholders in sub-Saharan Africa, investigating how these frameworks protect health data, how health apps operate in practice, and whether current frameworks are adequately responding to potential problems. Previously, Shajoe was an international legal adviser at the Global Strategy Lab, providing counsel on addressing antimicrobial resistance through legal interventions. He was a research fellow at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, leading and supportingprogrammes in the Caribbean. Shajoe holds an LLB First Class from the University of the West Indies, an LLM from Georgetown University, where he received the Global Health Law Scholarship, and an MA in Social Science Research from the University of Warwick. Shajoe is a Bloomberg Philanthropies healthy food policy fellow.