While pandemic preparedness and the next international response to the health crisis must be more efficient, Russia is a critical starting point for thinking about the future of cooperation on global health security. Together, the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic has driven Russian health policy – both domestic and international – into the grasp of state military and security purposes.

Would a wartime security approach to global health be inconsistent with the Kremlin’s diplomacy logic and overriding goals to remain a global technologically and scientifically advanced superpower?

Quite to the contrary! Russian global health policy and practice employ strategic, long-term approaches keeping its focus as anti-Western as a great power at war.

This talk will focus on an analysis of renewed Russian foreign policy strategy, its continuity and change, and cases of Kremlin’s wartime diplomacy in global health from different regions.

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Nataliya Shok, PhD, is a Public Policy Fellow at the Kennan Institute (Washington, DC), working on the intersections of vaccine diplomacy and biosecurity, national public health, and science policies in the context of the future global health, and geopolitics. She  has spent more than 15 years working transdisciplinary in academia, government, and civil society as social science and humanities person with a foot in the medical school world. Dr. Shok pursues an interdisciplinary approach and combines data from comparative policy analysis, history, life sciences and strategic studies.
Her current research focuses on Russian policy and its alliances across non-Western regions as an emerging case in global health amidst strategic competition.
 

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This event is co-sponsored at ASU by the:

* School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and
* Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies.