Viruses, Vaccines, and Antivirals: Why Politics Matters

Raj Chari is a Professor of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, focusing on comparative public policy. His work investigates transparency policies in modern democracies (including lobbying regulation) and the relationship between business and politics (in areas including privatization and competition policy.). Some of his previous work has also examined parties and elections. Isabel Rozas is Professor in Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin. After working as a researcher at the Medicinal Chemistry Institute (CSIC, Spain) for 14 years, she moved to the School of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin in 2000 as a Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry. In 2003, she became director of the Medicinal Chemistry course; in 2005, was elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin; in 2006, she became Senior Lecturer, and in 2007 was elected by her colleagues as Head of Organic, Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, a position that she held for three years. In 2010, she became Professor. She has held several positions at the School of Chemistry in TCD: during the years 2011-2014 she was Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning, in 2015-2016 Director of Research. Since 2018 she has been the Director of Global Relations.