Catherine Lo (Y.P.)

Catherine is specializing in international relations and global health. She was awarded a Ph.D. in Security Studies by the University of Hong Kong. At UCM, she has been teaching and researching topics including Chinese foreign policy, EU-China relations, global health governance, and Chinese health diplomacy. She is the author of HIV/AIDS in China and India: Governing Health Security (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). Her book won the Global Health Section Prize for the best book award from the International Studies Association (ISA) in 2017. In February 2022, she published a co-edited volume with Amsterdam University Press about covid-19 responses and the role of WHO in Asia. 

Publications

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, Anoma van der Veere, and Florian Schneider (eds.) (2022). Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Governance, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crisis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo (2022). The coronavirus as the “final straw” of the performative legitimacy? A new economic model in the post-COVID-19 era. In Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Governance, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crisis, 217-230. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo (2022). Escaping the “realist trap”: Taiwan’s participation in global health governance under the one-China principle. In Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Governance, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crisis, 111-123. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo (2022). Taiwan Flashpoint in the Indo-Pacific Region: ‘Russian’ Lessons to Xi Jinping?. Atlantisch Perspectief 2: 32-37.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo and Nicholas Thomas (2020). The Macrosecuritization of Antimicrobial Resistance in China. Journal of Global Security Studies 5(2): 361-378.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo (2020). Fulfilling the ‘Chinese Dream’: The Hong Kong Theater and the New Cold War. Atlantisch Perspectief 3: 14-19.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo (2020). The COVID-19 Vaccine Race in the New Cold War. SOAS China Institute Blog.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, Theodore Kerr, Ian Bradley-Perrin, Sarah Schulman, Eric A. Stanley, and Nishant Shahani (2020). Dispatches on the Globalizations of AIDS. In AIDS and the Distribution of Crises. Edited by Jin-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Huhasz, and Nishant Shahani, 30-59. Durham: Duke University Press.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo and Nicholas Thomas (2018). The Macrosecuritization of Antimicrobial Resistance in Asia. Australian Journal of International Affairs 72(6): 567-583.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo (2018). Securitizing HIV/AIDS: A Game Changer in State-Societal Relations in China? Globalization and Health 14(50): 1-14. 

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo (2018). China’s Rise and the U.S Pivot to Asia: The Implications of Trans-Pacific Partnership on the Regional Economic Architecture. In The Changing East Asian Security Landscapes: Challenges, Actors and Governance. Edited by Stefan Fröhlich and Howard Loewen. Springer VS.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo and Kirit Premjibhai Solanki [Indian Parliament Member] AIDS-Free by 2030, India Included. The Hindu. April 6, 2017.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo (2015). HIV/AIDS in China and India: Governing Health Security. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo and Nicholas Thomas (2012). Securitizing Health. Health Security and Governance. Edited by Nicholas Thomas. 1-17. London: Routledge.

-Catherine Yuk-ping Lo and Nicholas Thomas (2010). How is Health a Security Issue? Politics, Response, and Issues. Health Policy and Planning 25(6): 447-453.