Acknowledgments 

The Social Science Research Council gratefully acknowledges the following staff members, who played an indispensable role in the Public Health, Surveillance, and Human Rights Network’s convenings and the development of this report:

David A. Banks, Associate Research Advisor, Public Health, Surveillance, and Human Rights Network

Alexa Dietrich, Program Director, Scholarly Borderlands and Religion and the Public Sphere

Rebecca Tave Gluskin, Chief Statistician and Deputy Director, Measure of America

Clara Hanson, Associate Research Advisor, Public Health, Surveillance, and Human Rights Network

Ronald Kassimir, Vice President of Programs

Renee King, Associate Research Advisor, Public Health, Surveillance, and Human Rights Network and Measure of America

Duncan Omanga, Program Officer, African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa

Michael Miller, Program Director, Just Tech and Media & Democracy

Vina Tran, Chief of Staff

In addition to the SSRC staff members listed above, Juni Ahari, Cole Edick, Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing, Clare McGranahan, Rajat Singh, and Zach Zinn contributed to the administrative, communications, and web development efforts behind this publication.

Over the course of the network’s discussions, leading scholars and researchers delivered presentations to members on topics of central concern to this report. We extend our thanks to the following guest speakers, who lent their time and expertise to inform the work and conversations of the PHSHR Network:  

Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

Alvaro Bedoya, Professor and Founding Director of the Center on Privacy and Technology, Georgetown University School of Law

Pauline Byakika-Kibwika, Chair of the Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda

John Palfrey, President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Josh Platzky Miller, Affiliated Lecturer in the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Sharath Srinivasan, Co-Director of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, David and Elaine Potter Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge


We are grateful to Mary Bridges, who provided editorial support for this report, and Beth Post and Michael Shaw, who oversaw the design.