We must not give up on publicly funding health and wellness at home and the world. Do not relinquish care to only profit-making and ROI schemes! My latest: www.statnews.com/2025/11/05/f...

World Bank pandemic bonds only paid out after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital. Susan Erikson explores the murky, ever-growing world of betting on catastrophe:

Framed as humanitarian innovation, insurance-linked securities allow investors to bet on everything from hurricanes to pandemics. Our essay of the week unpacks how speculative finance turns catastrophe into a tradable asset. By Susan Erikson in @mitpress.bsky.social buff.ly/EXs3DZK

Jacobin has a fiery issue on SPECULATION, which includes a review of my book, Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance jacobin.com/issue/specul... jacobin.com/2025/06/maki... @sfu-fhs.bsky.social @sfufass.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

Life-saving drugs going to waste in Sierra Leone because the US stopped distribution for treatment. Just. Stopped. Cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o...

My friend @slerikson.bsky.social‬ amazing book, a multi-sited ethnography of so-called pandemic bonds --from international investor meetings to Sierra Leonean health centers -- is finally out!

"Investable!" is a critical and sobering look at how international bankers and investors turn pandemics into investment opportunities and what we stand to lose when we rely on "innovative finance": mitpress.mit.edu/978026254935...

Investable! is out today! Thrilled and grateful! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757475...

Trump’s nominee to run the DFC, wants to redirect USAID’s budget to Wall Street. What will this mean for global health? In the most recent blog post, first published by the McLeod Group, Susan Erikson (@slerikson.bsky.social) reflects on the financialization of aid. www.sum.uio.no/english/rese...

DOGE has so much to learn about government! on.ft.com/3R8b3ai

Wall Street likely to benefit from USAID shuttering. More about it in my McLeod piece www.mcleodgroup.ca/2025/03/shif...

Can't wait for this amazing work by my friend Susan Erikson to be out in the world! mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780262...