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Dr Roosa Lambin

Visiting Fellow

Social Policy & Criminology

roosa.lambin@open.ac.uk

Biography

Professional biography

Dr. Roosa Lambin is a Visiting Research Fellow in Social Policy at the Open University. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, and spans across Global Social Policy, Social Protection, Global Health and Philanthropy. She has additional expertise in transnational climate risks, and her work specialises in the sub-Saharan African region. Roosa has previously worked at the Environmental Institute at the University of Oxford and frequently collaborates with the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research.

Publications

Book

Handbook on Philanthropy and Social Policy (2025)

Book Chapter

Introduction to the Handbook on Philanthropy and Social Policy (2025)

Philanthropy in the health sector: a mixed blessing? (2025)

Incorporating Informal Workers into Social Insurance in Tanzania (2024)

Big philanthropies as agents of policy circulation in development: examining the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Arenas, Agents and Actions (2019)

NGOs and their role in the welfare mix (2019)

Journal Article

Legitimacy in 21st-Century Polylateralism: The Case of Global Health Funds (2025)

Thinking afresh: Closing the global funding gap to realise universal social protection (2024)

Philanthropic donor agencies and social policy in sub-Saharan Africa – New perspectives to the “welfare mix” (2024)

Tanzanian social policy in the new millennium – a cross-sectoral analysis from a gender perspective. (2024)

The rise of big philanthropy in global social policy: implications for policy transfer and analysis (2023)

Report

Social protection and coloniality: learning from the past and present: framework paper (2025)

A global fund for social protection: lessons from the experience of global health, climate and agricultural funds (2023)