Priti Patnaik

Priti Patnaik is the founder of Geneva Health Files—an investigative, reader-funded journalistic initiative reporting on power and politics in global health. She is also author of a just-launched book, Negotiating Equity: The Amendments to the International Health Regulations [May 2025].  

Ana Marcela Rojas Fonseca Hial, MD, who volunteered in COVID-19 vaccine trial for AstraZeneca, poses for a photograph, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 10, 2020.
Governance

World Health Assembly: Why Multilateralism Needs More Than Solidarity

by Priti Patnaik

WHO member states should cooperate to address health challenges and preserve the institution without the United States

Anganwadi center workers at a protest rally in Ahmedabad, India, on December 24, 2013. There are more than 1.3 million such centers in India with three million workers. The proto shows a huge crowd, nearly all women, shouting and protesting at a crowded rally. REUTERS/Amit Dave
Gender

Feminist Foreign Policy and COVID-19

by Priti Patnaik

Global health security for the poorest and most vulnerable people requires trade policies that protect health workers

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