Andrew Lakoff
- Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Communication
- Director, Research Cluster in Science, Technology and Society
- USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Expertise Summary
Expert on the politics of disaster response, security, global health, mental illness and the pharmaceutical industry
Expertise
- politics of disaster response
- infrastructure vulnerability
- urban security
- biological threats
- preparing for and government response to natural and man-made disasters, including earthquakes, wildfires, oil spills, terrorist attacks, hurricanes and tsunamis
- public health preparedness
- global pharmaceuticals industry
- psychiatry and psycho-pharmaceuticals
- history of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
- societal implications of new developments in the life sciences and biotechnology
Languages
- Spanish
- French
Additional Information
- Author, Disaster and the Politics of Intervention (2010)
- Co-author, Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (2008)
- Co-author, Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices (2006)
- Author, Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (2005)