Dr. Eduardo J. Gómez is an Associate Professor in the College of Health at Lehigh University. A political scientist by training, his research focuses on the politics of global health policy reform. His first book, Contested Epidemics: Policy Response in Brazil and the U.S. and what the BRICS Can Learn, was published with Imperial College Press in 2015. Dr. Gómez published his second book, Geopolitics in Health: Confronting Obesity, AIDS, and Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies, with Johns Hopkins University press in 2018.
Dr. Gómez is currently under contract with Johns Hopkins University press to complete a new book, tentatively titled Junk Food Politics, that explains the political, social, and regulatory policy influence of junk food industries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
His research has been funded by the Rockefeller, George Soros, and Tinker Foundations, as well as King’s College London, Rutgers, and Brown University. Dr. Gómez’s research has appeared in a myriad of scholarly peer-reviewed journals, policy journals, and magazines. Dr. Gómez is also a frequent contributor to major media outlets, such as CNN and BBC, on topics ranging from global health to US-Latin American relations.
Prior to joining the faculty at Lehigh University, Dr. Gómez was an Associate Professor at King’s College London, an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, and prior to that, a pre-doctoral researcher in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has previously worked for Oxfam, the RAND Corporation, World Bank, IMF, George Soros Foundation, and the Inter-American Dialogue. Dr. Gómez was elected to Term Membership at the Council of Foreign Relations in 2009. He is a veteran of the United States Air Force, having served at the United States Air Force Academy. He holds a PhD and MA in political science from Brown University, a MA degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.