His first book, “ ‘All I Eat is Medicine’: Going Hungry in Mozambique’s AIDS Economy” (University of California Press, 2021) traces the legacies of imperialism, extraction, and racialized exploitation and abandonment at the root of large-scale contemporary health crises like the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It presents flesh-and-blood accounts of people in Mozambique living with HIV/AIDS as they navigate the emerging AIDS economy and care for one another as community health workers, volunteers, and activists. The book calls for a global health that goes beyond the distribution of technological magic bullets to one that reckons with the political and economic forces, institutions, and policies that produce social and health inequities in the first place.

He is currently adapting a meaning-centered approach to understanding unusual experience based on principles from the Hearing Voices Movement in a project that draws of the expertise of clinicians, Veteran peer support specialists, and Veteran voice hearers at the West LA VA. He is the lead qualitative investigator of a quality improvement evaluation of a “safe camping” initiative on the campus of the West LA VA. He has also been active in local advocacy efforts around decarceration and decriminalization of homelessness and mental illness.