Dr. Michael Rabi Syrkin is a post-doctoral fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa (2025–2026). His research focuses on the intersection of governance, crises and emergencies, and health from a political, historical, and sociological perspective. Currently, he is researching the emergence of “infodemics” as a field of expertise and governmental problem. Before joining the Center, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied how the politics of emergency aftermath shapes change in global health governance, and earned his Ph.D. at the School of Public Policy and Governance at the Hebrew University, where his dissertation examined the global governance of health emergencies. Michael’s work has been published in leading journals such as Sociology of Health & Illness, Medical Anthropology, Globalizations, Minerva, Critical Public Health, and Critical Policy Studies.