Writing

Fifty-one publications, one argument.

Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, technical reports for WHO and other institutions, and commentary in the press — on pandemic governance, access to medicines, and the regulation of health risk factors.

Also indexed at [Google Scholar], [SSRN], [ORCID], and the O'Neill Institute.

The shape of the work

Fifty-one publications, mapped

Every publication, tagged by subject. Web shows how the themes interconnect — the papers sitting between two clusters are the cross-cutting ones. Timeline rearranges the same points by year, which is where the trajectory becomes visible.

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The complete list follows below, in reverse chronological order and filterable by publication type.

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  • The Contributions of Global Health Law to Global Health Security: The IHR Amendments (2024) and the WHO Pandemic Agreement (2025)
    Elgar Research Handbook on Global Health Law, 2nd edition — lead author
  • Databases for Impact: How Legal Surveillance & Epidemiology Can Advance Global Health Governance
    Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics — co-authored
  • Reforming the International Law and Organization of New Vaccines for the World's Most Vulnerable People
    Cornell International Law Journal, vol. 58 — co-authored
  • Legal Preparedness for One Health: Evolving Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Improved Global Health Security
    Journal of Global Health Law, vol. 2, issue 2, special issue on One Health and Global Health Law — co-authored
  • One Health Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities for Country-Level Implementation
    The Cambridge Handbook of One Health and the Law, Cambridge University Press — co-authored
  • Equitable Access Review of CEPI's Chikungunya Partnership Agreements
    O'Neill Institute — co-developed
  • Mapping the Commercial Determinants of Health in Countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region: Conceptualisations, Impact and Actions
    World Health Organization — co-developed
  • Online Sales and Promotion of E-Cigarettes in India: A Public Health Concern
    Tobacco Use Insights — co-authored
  • Decoding Technology Transfer in the Proposed WHO Pandemic Accord
    CIL Dialogues, National University of Singapore
  • Advancing Equity, from COVID-19 to Mpox
    The Hindu, editorial — with Lawrence Gostin and Sam Halabi
  • The Global Struggle for a Pandemic Treaty
    The Hindu, editorial — with Lawrence Gostin and Sam Halabi
  • The Countdown to a Pandemic Treaty
    The Hindu, editorial
  • Are Advertising Policies Affirmative in Restricting the Marketing of Foods High in Fat, Salt and Sugar in India? Evidence from SWOT Analysis
    The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia — co-authored
  • Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Partnerships of Equitable Vaccine Access
    Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 51: 234–246 — co-authored
  • The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Alcohol Control during the COVID-19 Pandemic across Six Countries in Africa
    Discover Social Science and Health, 3:17 — co-authored
  • Policy Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing the One Health Approach in India: Placing One Health at the Heart of COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond
    CABI One Health, 2:1 — co-authored
  • COVID-19 in the Americas: The Role of Collaborating Centers in Understanding Lessons and Best Practices in Pandemic Preparedness and Response
    Pan American Journal of Public Health, 47:e7 — co-authored
  • Advancing a World Together Equitably
    O'Neill Institute, FNIH and UNAIDS — contributor
  • Legal Challenges — Progress in Tobacco Control
    Report on Tobacco Control in India 2022, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, and WHO India — co-authored
  • Policy, System and Practice Response to Alcohol Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Seven Countries of the WHO African Region
    World Health Organization Policy Brief 9 — contributor and co-editor
  • Equity and the Pandemic Instrument: Lessons from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
    Health Affairs — co-authored
  • COVID-19 Law Lab: Building Strong Legal Evidence
    Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics — co-authored
  • Right to Health and Commercial Free Speech in India: Examining the Constitutional Provisions
    Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, symposium on Commercial Speech and Commercial Determinants of Health — with Nikhil Gokani and Sujitha Subramanian
  • Policy Response to Alcohol Consumption and Tobacco Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the WHO South-East Asia Region
    World Health Organization Policy Brief 7 — co-editor and contributor
  • National Sovereignty Implications of a Pandemic Instrument
    O'Neill Institute and FNIH — co-convener
  • Legal Tools for Pandemic Preparedness: WHO Collaborating Center Support for New Coordinating Mechanisms
    O'Neill Institute and FNIH — expert contributor
  • Law, Criminalisation and HIV in the World: Have Countries That Criminalise Achieved More or Less Successful Pandemic Response?
    BMJ Global Health — co-authored
  • Protecting the Right to Access Vaccines
    The Indian Express — with Nikhil Pratap
  • Strengthening Tobacco Control Laws for an India after COVID-19
    The Wire Science
  • India Must Have Vaccine Transparency for the World's Largest Immunization Program to Succeed
    O'Neill Institute Expert Column
  • What's Holding Back an Effective AIDS Response in South and Southeast Asia?
    The Wire Science — with Matthew M. Kavanagh
  • COVID-19: Sounding the Alarm to Revisit National Tobacco Control Measures in India
    O'Neill Institute Expert Column — with Ravi Mehrotra
  • Online Sale of Liquor Could Dilute India's Efforts to Contain the Spread of Coronavirus
    The Wire — with Monika Arora
  • Implement Aarogya Setu, but Only through Law
    The Hindu — co-authored
  • 1.3 Billion People. One Virus. How Much Privacy?
    The Wire — co-authored
  • Delhi in a Chokehold: Air Pollution as a Public Health Emergency
    Health Affairs — with Juliette Simpson McHardy, Margherita Cinà and Lawrence Gostin
  • "History Owes an Apology to the LGBT Community" — Supreme Court of India Reads Down Colonial-Era Section 377
    O'Neill Institute Expert Column
  • Advances in Modern Medicine: Is 3D Printing the Way Ahead?
    Ortho Research Online Journal, Crimson Publishers, vol. 4:1
  • Montgomery v. Lanarkshire Health Board — Complete Patient Autonomy in the Patient's Interest?
    South Asian Law Review Journal, vol. 3:1, 55–59
  • Online Gambling: A Multidimensional Overview of the Current Legal Scenario
    Plebs Journal of Law, vol. 1:2
  • IPRS and PPL: Unfolding the Battle over Their Legitimacy
    International Journal of Legal Development & Allied Issues, vol. 1:4, 42–46
  • Safeguarding Medical Professionals — Challenges and Solutions
    South Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, vol. 2:3, 224–234 — co-authored
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