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Elyssa Liu
Lead, Legal Frameworks and Governance, Centre for Outbreak Preparedness, Duke-NUS Medical School
Elyssa Jiawen Liu is an international health lawyer with over a decade of experience spanning global health, international law, human rights, and bioethics. She leads the Legal Frameworks team at the Centre for Outbreak Preparedness in Singapore, where she works to strengthen legal systems for emergency preparedness and response, with a focus on operationalising Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) to promote equity and global coordination. She also has a strong interest in the legal and ethical dimensions of One Health, particularly at the human–animal–environment interface.
At the World Health Organization Headquarters and Western Pacific Regional Office, Elyssa contributed to legal and policy work on non-communicable disease regulation (e.g. tobacco control, food labelling), the right to health for older persons, digital health governance, and public health law education. At UNICEF, she worked on health in emergencies and humanitarian settings, supporting COVAX efforts to deliver vaccines to vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work also included strengthening community health systems, risk communication, infectious disease control, and antimicrobial resistance. Her broader experience includes contributions to UNAIDS, the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), HelpAge International, and Women in Global Health.
Elyssa holds an LL.M. in Global Health Law from Georgetown University Law Center, an LL.B. (Honours) from the University of Manchester, and is completing an MPH at Imperial College London.