Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University and Vice Chair of the International Studies Association’s Global Health Section. He is the author of Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (Cornell University Press, 2017). He runs the Global Health Politics Workshop and is co-founder of the Global Health and Development Interest Group. Dr. Harris serves as Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health & Social Behavior and was formerly Associate Editor at Social Science & Medicine. He is Chair-Elect of the Nominations Committee for the American Sociological Association’s Section on Medical Sociology and past Council Member for Development Section. He has served as a consultant to UNDP and the World Bank (as Specialist on the Political Economy of Health Reform) and is recipient of the Henry Luce Scholarship and two Fulbright awards for his work on the politics of health policy. He is a contributor to major media outlets, including National Public Radio, the Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, and The Progressive.