Scott joined HEARD in 2007 as a Visiting Research Fellow, from the London School of Economics. He has a BA in History from the University of Victoria (Canada), and an MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics. His background is in global health and complex emergencies, and his recent research interests have included the politics of international HIV/AIDS aid allocation. Currently, Scott is working on research of the state of HIV/AIDS emergency in Swaziland. Before joining HEARD he volunteered in AIDS hospice for young children in the Western Cape, and in an environmental sustainability project in Nepal.

Scott’s main focus is conceptualizing emergencies in the age of aids and looking at the impact of HIV aids in food security, primarily in Swaziland and Lesotho. The projects he is working on are, Red countries/ LMIC and Swazi emergency- looks at Swazi and Lesotho with high HIV prevalence and falling social indicators like life expectancy and matches those with natural emergencies like Tsunamis. Which means it assesses whether the country is experiencing emergency with HIV or not, his responsibility is to look at the response and if there has been declaration of emergency or not i.e. for HIV/AIDS, his team needs to look at whether the response is commensurate with the emergency. Scott’s projects fit into both programmes 1 and 2. These projects answer all three of the questions asked, key drivers and impacts, effective responses and what does vulnerability mean?