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WHO Climate Change Conference: Immediate Health Benefits Possible
Posted September 2, 2014
The first-ever global conference on health and climate change was hosted by WHO in Geneva from August 27-29. More than 300 invited participants attended the three-day forum, including UN agency heads, government…
O’Neill Center Colloquium: The West African Ebola Epidemic
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, a member of the Health and Human Rights Consortium, invites you to a colloquium event:
The West African Ebola Epidemic: How Can It Be Contained and How Can We Prevent the Next…
HHR Board Member Michael Kirby Delivers Two Lectures on HIV/AIDS and the Right to Health
In an August 11 article in The Age Elizabeth Brumby (@LizBrumby) outlines two lectures on health and human rights from the Honorable Michael Kirby, a former justice of the High Court of Australia and a member of the Health and Human Rights editorial…
Book Brief – When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health
When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health
Edited by João Biehl & Adriana Petryna
Princeton University Press (July 2013)
Hardcover ISBN: 9780691157382 ($75.00)
Paperback ISBN: 9780691157399 ($29.95)
456 pages
Reviewed by HHR…
Times Review: Lawrence Gostin’s “Global Health Law”
HHR contributor Juliet Sorensen reviews Lawrence O. Gostin’s Global Health Law in today’s Times Higher Education. Gostin is on the steering committee for the recently launched Framework Convention on Global Health, and is an…
Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health
By editorial intern Laura Faas
A new website devoted to the Framework Convention on Global Health is intended to “facilitate engagement, advocacy, and support from people across the world for adopting and implementing a Framework Convention on Global…
MDG4 Lessons Could Save More Children’s Lives After 2015
By Carmel Williams, Executive Editor, Health and Human Rights Journal
If human rights-based approaches to child health had informed the Millennium Development Goal addressing child survival, the already impressive reduction in child mortality since…
Lawrence Gostin publishes Global Health Law
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, a member of the Health and Human Rights Consortium, shares the following update about a new book from Lawrence O. Gostin.
Georgetown University Law Center Professor and…
You’re Invited – O’Neill Institute 2014 Summer Programs!
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, a member of the Health and Human Rights Consortium, invites you to their 2014 Summer Programs.
Now in our third year, we are excited to present two programs this summer: (1)…
The University as Global Citizen
By guest contributor Juliet Sorensen
As our world shrinks, universities must prepare their students for life outside the ivory tower while they are still inside it. The 2013 Global Alliance for Justice Education Worldwide Conference in Delhi focused…