Biography
Noam Schimmel is a Research Officer at LSE Health researching human rights and healthcare policy. He is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford University and Associate Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University, Canada. He has an MSc in Philosophy, Policy and Social Value from the LSE and an MSt in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University. His doctoral research examined American Democratic presidential healthcare reform rhetoric, American healthcare reform policy and politics, and the human right to healthcare. He earned his interdisciplinary PhD in Media and Communication, incorporating political science, public policy, and human rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
His research focuses on the politics, ethics, and practice of human rights, and his articles have appeared in a range of journals of political science, human rights, development, and education.
He has published on a variety of human rights topics including healthcare access, reparative justice for survivors of genocide, the rights of children and indigenous peoples, as well as on development efforts to alleviate poverty and engender and sustain human security. His most recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Human Rights and Human Rights Review.
Noam Schimmel has particular interests in the ethical dimensions of human rights law, the politics of human rights and humanitarian aid, development studies and the provision of healthcare in the context of development, global governance and its intersection with human rights law, and the role of rhetoric and communication in both advancing and limiting human rights and the right to healthcare.
His forthcoming book, Presidential Healthcare Reform Rhetoric: Continuity, Change and Contested Values from Truman to Obama will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the summer of 2016.