Safura Abdool Karim, PhD, LLM

Safura Abdool Karim is a public health lawyer, whose research has focused on improving health through the law. She is a Berman Institute-Oxford Joint Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Infectious Disease Ethics under the Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE), a collaboration between the Berman Institute and the Ethox Center, Oxford University. She is also an adjunct assistant professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Safura completed her PhD in Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal following an LLM in Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a clerkship at the Constitutional Court in South Africa. As a practicing lawyer and legal researcher, her policy impact ranges from her role in advising the South African National Department of Health on food labelling to her contributions in addressing Covid-19 vaccine inequity in Africa. Her current research interests span equitable access to novel health technologies, rights-based approaches to public health, ethics and obesity, and the use of solidarity in developing a right to public health.