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Editorial Board Members and Terms of Reference

Cathy Albisa
Philip Alston
Jacqueline Bhabha
Agnès Binagwaho
Manuel Carballo
Audrey Chapman
Brian E. Concannon Jr.
Lawrence Cox
Martha Davis
Sheila Davis
Ernest Drucker
Harvey Fineberg
Julio Frenk
Varun Gauri
H. Jack Geiger
Lawrence Gostin
Sofia Gruskin
Timothy Harding
Aart Hendriks
Howard Hu
Paul Hunt
Peter Kandela
Michael D. Kirby
Adetokunbo O. Lucas
Stephen P. Marks
Vivek Maru
Gregory B. Milne
Jaime Miranda
Chidi Odinkalu
Richard Parker
Jacqueline Pitanguy
Thomas Pogge
Julieta Rossi
Barbara Rylko-Bauer
Margaret L. Satterthwaite
Haun Saussy
Michael Selgelid
Amartya Sen
Gracelyn Smallwood
Margaret A. Somerville
Henry J. Steiner
Bryan Stevenson
Eric Stover
Daniel Tarantola
Monika Kalra Varma
Gavin Yamey

Founding Editor
Jonathan Mann, 1994–1998

Former Editor-in-Chief
Sofia Gruskin, 1998–2006

Publisher
Jennifer Leaning

Editorial Board Terms of Reference

Senior Advisory Board
The members of the Senior Advisory Board counsel the Editor-in-Chief and the Publisher on matters connected with the vision and goals of the journal.

Editorial Board
The members of the Editorial Board advise the Editor-in-Chief and editorial staff on all matters relating to the journal's success and are encouraged to contribute substantively to Health and Human Rights work. Specifically, it is hoped that members of the Editorial Board will support Health and Human Rights in the following ways:

By participating in periodic consultations, formal and informal, which the Editor-in-Chief and editorial staff will undertake to assess the journal's progress and plan for its future
By disseminating information about Health and Human Rights and raising the journal’s profile among the institutions and constituencies in which Board members are active
By assisting the editors in identifying qualified colleagues to peer-review submitted articles and/or contribute to the journal’s work in other ways
By themselves supplying peer reviews of articles submitted to Health and Human Rights when requested to do so by the editorial staff, with the understanding that the editors will limit such demands on Editorial Board members’ time; Board members will not be asked to review more than one manuscript per year
By contributing original scholarly work to Health and Human Rights

The cost of inaction: The consequences of failing the world’s children

By FXB Research Assistant Carrie Bronsther On April 16, the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health, in collaboration with the GlobalPost, presented a panel discussion on The Cost of Inaction: The Consequences of Failing the World’s Children. The panel featured four expert participants: Countess Albina du Boisrouvray, Dean Julio Frenk, Professor Sudhir Anand, and [...]

Internship: Health and Human Rights Journal

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Book Brief: The State of Economic and Social Human Rights: A Global Overview

Ed. Lanse Minkler Cambridge University Press (Jan 2013) ISBN 9781107609136 408 pages $36.99 In The State of Economic and Social Human Rights, Minkler draws on the insight of scholars in economics, law, sociology, anthropology, and political science to provide insight on core economic and social human rights. He aims to explore the “obstacles that prevent [...]

A call from below: Why deeper education in health and human rights is crucial for medical students

By Ashish Premkumar, Allison Barker, Amanda DeLoureiro, MPH, Leela Sarathy, Daniel A. Dworkis As medical students, we operate in a world of graduated clinical responsibility, traversing the divide from taking vitals to complex differential diagnoses and unsupervised minor procedures. We are taught that as our skills and sophistication grow, we will be caring for increasingly [...]

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Approaches to the development of human rights indicators for women’s health

Pamela J. Surkan, Luke C. Mullany, Namrita S. Singh, Chris Beyrer Abstract We propose that human rights indicators related to women’s health be developed. First, we present two published examples from Burma and Afghanistan that illustrate how specific violations of human rights have been related to women’s health outcomes in the literature. We then review [...]

The Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health: Establishing international processes for state reporting to an independent monitoring body

Benjamin Mason Meier and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum: How independent monitoring bodies can ensure state reporting, oversight, and accountability in accelerating progress on Millennium Development Goals related to the health of women and children. (April 28, 2011)

La participación social en un contexto de violencia política: Implicaciones para la promoción y ejercicio del derecho a la salud en guatemala

Walter Flores, Ana Lorena Ruano, y Denise Phé Funchal: La participación social en un contexto de violencia política: Implicaciones para la promoción y ejercicio del derecho a la salud en guatemala