Is Hezbollah using health services to attract recruits? Does healthcare have a place in counterinsurgency? How do the laws of war address civilian hospitals in war zones? How do civil wars affect vaccination programs? These are the types of questions bouncing around my brain all day, everyday.
I am passionate about the dynamic between armed conflict and public health. What does this mean? Simply put, I am addicted to figuring out how armies, militias, insurgents, transnational criminals, pirates, and terrorists use, exploit, build, and destroy health systems and the health of populations. I am lucky enough to be a political science Ph.D. student at the University of California, Davis, and am able to indulge this addiction daily.
At UC Davis, I specialize in international relations and statistical analysis, combining a love for programming and technology with an obsession for studying the relationship between public health and armed conflict.
On January 1st 2008, I launched War & Health, a formalization of my research notes through almost daily short articles.
Before coming to UC Davis, I attended the University of Miami where I triple majored in Religious Studies, International Studies, and Political Science.
I currently live in San Francisco with my beautiful wife Jen.