FULL-TIME FACULTY
Eduardo J. Gomez
Assistant Professor
(BA, University of Virginia, AM, University of Chicago, Ph.D. Brown)
Dr. Gómez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers University at Camden. His research focuses Comparative and American politics, with a theoretical focus in institutional origins and change.
His dissertation titled Responding to Contested Epidemics: Democracy, International Pressures, and the Civic Sources of Institutional Change, compares the United States to Brazil on the creation and reform of public health institutions in response to civic protests and international pressures. He has published articles on health politics in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Global Health Governance, and Revista: The Harvard Review of Latin America; on the issue of comparative federalism and decentralization, he has published in Studies in Comparative International Development, and chapters in a co-edited book that he wrote with Professor Paul Smoke at New York University titled Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: Towards a Comparative Interdisciplinary Perspective (Edward Elgar, 2007) and more recently in Martin McKee (et al) Heath Systems and Communicable Diseases: Challenges to Transitional Societies (Open University Press). Prior to his arrival at Rutgers, Dr. Gómez was a visiting scientist and instructor in the newly formed Politics and Governance Group in the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. While there, he taught on the politics of international health and published a working paper at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health.
Dr. Gómez is currently working on several projects. First, he is completing several articles on institutional change and the politics of government response to HIV/AIDS and TB in Brazil and the United States, the politics of obesity in the U.S. in general and in the Latino community, the civic sources of institutional change (theoretical article), and a quantitative assessment of the impact of global health partnerships on policy spending for AIDS and TB. He is also conducting research on federalism and decentralization's constraints on government response to AIDS, TB, and Malaria in large democratic federations.
Dr. Gomez was recently elected to term membership at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also worked as a consultant and written reports for the George Soros Foundation, the World Health Organization, and the Department for International Development in the U.K. He is available for any consulting on health systems reform, decentralization, and institutional analysis for health in the United States and developing nations. He previously worked on a full-time basis for the RAND Corporation, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.