Lynda Gilby is a Doctoral Candidate in Global Health and Development at Tampere University, where she will then continue in the project as a post-doctoral researcher. Her research has focused on the global opposition to sexual and reproductive health and rights and their mobilisation and tactics in international fora, such as the United Nations and European Union institutions. Her work has been published in the BMJ Global Health, Social Science and Medicine, The Lancet, and Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, with a co-authored chapter on ‘Gender, Pandemics, and Public Health’ in an upcoming Oxford University Press edited volume. Lynda has also worked as an analyst for Spark Street Advisors. Her volunteer work with Women in Global Health and Menstrual Rights Global has involved participation at high-level UN meetings.
Prior to completing her Master’s in Public and Global Health, Lynda worked as a Radiographer for 8 years in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. She also has a keen interest in landscape photography.
Dr Marie Cazes is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Social sciences at the University of Jyväskylä. Her PhD dissertation analysed the evolution of populism in Finland from the late 1950’s until nowadays. In the TransFlows project, her research focuses on environmental, social and health policies of right-wing populist parties in Finland and in Europe.
Dr Corrado Piroddi is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University.His primary research interests include social philosophy and ontology, critical theory, bioethics, and global justice. He has published articles in several international journals, including the Asian Bioethics Review, Human Studies, Journal of the Theory of Social Behavior, Distinktion, and Critical Horizons. Piroddi is also a member of the scientific committee for the Italian philosophy journal La Società degli Individui, which is published four times a year. In 2021, his doctoral dissertation received an award from the Tampere University Foundation and the Tampere University Industrial Research Fund.
From 2022 to 2024, he is involved in an individual postdoctoral project titled “Pandemics, Social Distancing, and Social Pathologies: An Ethical and Socio-Philosophical Perspective.” This project explores the bioethical and social issues that emerged from non-pharmaceutical interventions such as school closures, quarantines, and social distancing during epidemic emergencies, utilizing Axel Honneth’s ethical and critical framework. The research is funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, SKR-Pirkanmaa, and the Signe and Ane Gyllenbergs Foundation.
Starting in 2024, Corrado Piroddi collaborates on the TIPU project, led by Professor Meri Koivusalo, which investigates how the European Union has addressed health within trade and investment policy. In conjunction with the TIPU research project, Piroddi has developed a new project focusing on socio-philosophical and bioethical considerations related to vaccine trade agreements, accessibility, and practices. Funded by the Wihuri Foundation, this project examines the bioethical implications of vaccine trade, commercial regulation, and distribution, and their impact on public health promotion and protection.
Dr Valentine Berthet is the Principle Investigator of the project. She is also a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Helsinki. In the Horizon Europe CCindle project (2022-2026), her research focuses on anti-gender actors in the European Parliament. Her recent work appears in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Social Politics and American Political Science Review. Berthet has recently contributed to a co-authored Palgrave Pivot monograph on qualitative methodologies.
Professor Meri Koivusalo is a member of the working group offering support, expertise, and guidance to the project. She is an expert in global and transnational health and social policy, trade and global governance for health. She has a particular interest in the relationship between economic globalization, trade and health, health systems and politics and practice of global health policy-making. Meri has a background in public health medicine, as well as a PhD in environmental health and a MSc from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has co-authored and edited academic and textbooks in the area of global health as well as worked with Finnish government, European Commission, WHO-Geneva, UNRISD and a number of international nongovernmental organizations. She is the Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Health in All Policies and the Social Determinants of Health.