Clare Wenham

Biographic Data

ID1019550
NAMEClare Wenham
GIVEN NAMESClare
FAMILY NAMEWenham
SIGNATUREWENHAM C
AFFILIATIONSLondon School of Economics and Political Science
ORCID0000-0001-5378-3203
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS57
TOTAL CITATIONS83
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Feminism and Covid-19

    Open AccessJulia Smith, Clare WenhamBOOKFeminism and Covid-192026

    How dominant patriarchal structures permeated the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic—and women’s multiple and varied experiences of and resistance to these structures. Feminism and COVID-19 explores different but common themes related to women’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Julia Smith and Clare Wenham bring together a unique multicentered, multidisciplinary, and transnational author team, covering nine case studies from Bangladesh…

  • Trade-Offs in the International Legal Regime

    Open AccessMark Eccleston-Turner, Gian Luca Burci et al.ARTICLEAJIL Unbound2026

    COVID-19 starkly exposed the systemic frailties of global health governance, particularly concerning the functioning and utility of the International Health Regulations (IHR). Multiple independent reviews declared that the existing framework was designed to constrain rapid global action, and recommended concrete transformational reforms for the global health legal regime. 1 Most notably they recommended the negotiation of a new instrument to gove…

  • Decision-making under epistemic, strategic and institutional uncertainty during Covid-19

    Open AccessSumegha Asthana, Sanjana Mukherjee et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: Uncertainty is defined as limited knowledge or lack of predictability about past, present or future events. The COVID-19 pandemic management was significantly impacted by uncertainty, as the gaps between existing information and the necessary knowledge hindered decision-making. Current uncertainty literature primarily focuses on natural disasters, leaving a gap in understanding decision-making under uncertainty in times of public heal…

  • One Health for all

    Open AccessMélodie Ruwet, Michelle Rourke et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    The One Health concept emphasizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health. While the term “One Health” has only gained traction in this century, the idea itself is much older. For instance, many Indigenous Peoples and local communities have traditional cosmologies that recognize the interconnectedness of the ecosystem and the role of humans within it [1, 2]. It is the industrialized-focused worldview that has only recently c…

  • Normative convergence between global health security and universal health coverage

    Open AccessArush Lal, Clare Wenham et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2025

    BACKGROUND: The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and WHO Thirteenth General Programme of Work underscored the importance of mitigating health emergencies while ensuring accessible and affordable health services. Central to these efforts are global health security (GHS) and universal health coverage (UHC), which act both as standalone goals and as cross-cutting approaches to health policy and practice. While GHS and UHC each operate as dist…

  • Analysing the engagement with pandemic preparedness, prevention and response in selected English language political manifestoes in 2024

    Open AccessClare Wenham, Akhila PotluruARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    Despite the devastating impact of COVID-19 and repeated calls for political commitment to health security, our analysis of 43 manifestos from 16 countries and the European Parliamentary elections revealed that only four parties made specific policy pledges on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, with six providing brief mentions. The vast majority (33 parties) did not mention pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. When referen…

  • Managing the politics of health data during Covid-19

    Open AccessCosmo Howard, Sara E Davies et al.ARTICLEScience and Public Policy2025

    This article investigates the political dynamics of health statistics during COVID-19, a period marked by intensified reliance on quantitative data. It examines how institutional configurations shaped the governance and politics of pandemic data. Using the concept of ‘statistical systems’, the article presents a comparative typology of formal structures and informal norms for official data production and dissemination, and tests how these influen…

  • An opportunity for gender transformation? UN Women’s policy response to Covid-19

    Open AccessAsha Herten-Crabb, Alice Mũrage et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2025

    Pandemics disproportionately affect women due to their dominant roles in healthcare, caregiving, and industries vulnerable to public health policies. Women face higher infection risks, greater unpaid care burdens, and job losses during crises. Violence against women and disrupted access to healthcare, including sexual and reproductive services, also increase. Despite clear evidence of these effects, global pandemic responses have historically bee…

  • Partial recognition without redistribution

    Open AccessAsha Herten-Crabb, Yadanar Yadanar et al.ARTICLENew Political Economy2025References: 20

    The COVID-19 pandemic elevated care work as it was applauded on doorsteps and deemed ‘essential’ by governments. Yet this rhetorical visibility stood in stark contrast to its persistent structural invisibility. In the UK, women disproportionately shouldered the burden of social reproduction as healthcare workers, childcare providers, and unpaid carers, all while facing heightened job insecurity, domestic violence, and mental health strain. These …

  • Shifting official development assistance during Covid-19

    Open AccessLiana Woskie, Clare WenhamARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    CONTEXT: In contrast to bilateral aid, aid disbursed from multilateral institutions increased significantly at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, at a time when a coherent and effective multilateral response is needed most, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed a shifting landscape of donor agencies that struggle with basic functions, such as cross-national coordination. While multilaterals are uniquely positioned to transcend national priorities …

  • Technology transfer, intellectual property, and the fight for the soul of WHO

    Open AccessMelissa J Barber, Clare WenhamARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Debates over the scope, terms, and governance of technology transfer–the sharing of essential technical information, know-how, and materials needed to manufacture a health product–are prominent and controversial in international health diplomacy. These debates have become focal points in recent contentious negotiations to amend the International Health Regulations (IHR) and draft a global Pandemic Agreement. While some countries advocate for auto…

  • The complexities of global health negotiations

    Open AccessChiamaka P Ojiako, Tamrat Shaweno et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

  • Mpox

    Open AccessChristine Mcnab, Els Torreele et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

  • Costing the intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) process

    Open AccessClare Wenham, Akhila Potluru et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) was established to draft and negotiate a pandemic instrument to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response (PPR). This has been carried out under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), and has to date involved 15 sessions in Geneva, plus countless hours both in informal working groups, and in capitals working on government positions on each substantive issue. This all comes at a cost, …

  • (Re)constructing global health security and universal health coverage

    Open AccessArush Lal, Justin Parkhurst et al.ARTICLEInternational Affairs2024Cited by: 1

    To effectively tackle public health challenges, policy-makers increasingly advocate for aligning global health security (GHS) and universal health coverage (UHC), two influential norms driving international health cooperation. However, despite operating within overlapping spheres of governance, the normative histories linking GHS and UHC remain relatively unexplored in the literature. This article examines how GHS and UHC have been (re)constructe…

  • SDG5 “Gender Equality” and the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessEllen Kuhlmann, Gabriela Lotta et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare and societies, exacerbating existing inequalities for women and girls across every sphere. Our study explores health system responses to gender equality goals during the COVID-19 pandemic and inclusion in future policies. Methods: We apply a qualitative comparative approach, drawing on secondary sources and expert information; the data was collected from March-July 2022. Australia, Brazil, …

  • Creating more and more new institutions may not make the world safer from pandemics

    Open AccessClare Wenham, Julia RobinsonARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    In the three years since the emergence of COVID-19, we have witnessed the explosion of reviews to assess what went wrong with the response, and mechanisms to readdress such failures have been established. At the level of global governance, all the usual actors are involved: The World Health Organization has begun the IHR Amendment Process [1] and the development of a Pandemic Accord (CA+) [2]. The World Bank created a Pandemic Fund [3], and the U…

  • A Social Cure for Covid-19

    Open AccessSelima Sara Kabir, Amal Chowdhury et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2023References: 7

    The Bangladesh government issued a lockdown throughout the country from March–May 2020 in response to the COVID-19. The sudden lockdown caused economic ruptures across the country due to job loss. We conducted a comprehensive analysis of the outbreak through 40 in-depth interviews with men and women living in three Dhaka informal settlements from January to November 2021 to identify gaps to mitigate negative downstream effects of global pandemic …

  • Domestic Burdens Amid Covid-19 and Women’s Mental Health in Middle-Income Africa

    Open AccessValerie Mueller, Karen A Grépin et al.ARTICLEFeminist Economics2023Cited by: 1References: 10

    This article analyzes two longitudinal datasets (October – December 2020; April 2021) of 1,000 and 900 women in Kenya and Nigeria, respectively, alongside in-depth qualitative interviews with women at risk of changes to time use, to study two pandemic issues: women’s substitution of paid for unpaid work and how these shifts compromise their mental health. Women devote more time to domestic care (30–38 percent), less time to employment (29–46 perc…

  • From Imperialism to the “Golden Age” to the Great Lockdown

    Open AccessClare Wenham, Joshua W Busby et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Political Science2023Cited by: 6References: 95

    This article reviews the state of the literature on the politics of global health governance and associated political dynamics of actors involved in this issue space. We identify seven eras in the field, beginning with the period of empire and colonialism and ending with the COVID-19 outbreak. The field of global health has long had a focus on infectious disease, often rooted within a state-centered approach to transnational global health problem…

  • The gendered dimensions of the anti-mask and anti-lockdown movement on social media

    Open AccessA Al-Rawi, M Shameem Siddiqi et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2022

    This paper examines the anti-mask and anti-lockdown online movement in connection to the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat the spread of the coronavirus, health officials around the world urged and/or mandated citizens to wear facemasks and adopt physical distancing measures. These health policies and guidelines have become highly politicized in some parts of the world, often discussed in association with freedom of choice and independence. We downloa…

  • WuhanDiary and #WuhanLockdown

    Open AccessConnie Cai Ru Gan, Shuo Feng et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Social media can be both a source of information and misinformation during health emergencies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media became a ubiquitous tool for people to communicate and represents a rich source of data researchers can use to analyse users’ experiences, knowledge and sentiments. Research on social media posts during COVID-19 has identified, to date, the perpetuity of traditional gendered norms and experiences. Yet these stu…

  • Mapping regional cooperation of state actors for health research systems in Africa

    Open AccessAaron Hedquist, Catherine M Jones et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Regional bodies can potentially play an important role in improving health research in Africa. This study analyses the network of African state-based regional organisations for health research and assesses their potential relationship with national health research performance metrics. After cataloguing organisations and their membership, we conducted a social network analysis to determine key network attributes of national governments’ connection…

  • A gendered content analysis of the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 guidance and policies

    Open AccessEmily Tomsick, Julia Smith et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    As with previous global public health emergencies, the COVID-19 pandemic has had distinct and disproportionate impacts on women and their health and livelihoods. As the leader in global public health, it is incumbent upon the World Health Organization (WHO) to ensure gender is prioritized in pandemic response. We conducted a policy analysis of 338 WHO COVID-19 documents and found that only 20% explicitly discuss gender and over half do not mentio…

  • Using gender analysis matrixes to integrate a gender lens into infectious diseases outbreaks research

    Open AccessRosemary Morgan, Sara E Davies et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2022

    Evidence shows that infectious disease outbreaks are not gender-neutral, meaning that women, men and gender minorities are differentially affected. This evidence affirms the need to better incorporate a gender lens into infectious disease outbreaks. Despite this evidence, there has been a historic neglect of gender-based analysis in health, including during health crises. Recognizing the lack of available evidence on gender and pandemics in early…