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Extract Mark Eccleston-Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Global Health Law at King’s College London. He is one of the UK’s leading scholars on international law and global health. His published research has addressed legal issues relevant to pandemic diseases, global health governance and international law. His research specialism is in the field of international law and infectious diseases. Within this, his research interests lie in the field of pandemic preparedness, and the law of international organizations in the context of global health. He has published extensively on international law and infectious diseases. He recently co-edited a collection published by Springer entitled Infectious Diseases in the New Millennium: Legal and Ethical Challenges. Clare Wenham is Associate Professor of Global Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), trained in International Relations with a PhD from Aberystwyth University. She specializes in global health security and the politics and policy of pandemic preparedness and outbreak response, through analysis of influenza, Ebola, Zika and COVID-19. Her work considers global health governance, the role of the World Health Organization (WHO), national priorities and innovative financing for pandemic control. More recently she has been analyzing the downstream effects of global health security policy on women, and has recently published a monograph with Oxford University Press entitled Feminist Global Health Security. Her work features in The Lancet, BMJ, Security Dialogue, International Affairs, BMJ Global Health and Third World Quarterly.