Posted September 4, 2014 The new Special Rapporteur on the human right to health assumed his duties on August 1. Selected over the summer by the Human Rights Council, Dr. Dainius Pūras of Lithuania is the third individual to occupy the honorary position, the duties of which consist of ongoing monitoring of the status of the right to health throughout the world. Pūras has specialized in child rights and mental…
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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 officials, health and climate experts, and NGO representatives. In her opening remarks, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said, “The evidence is overwhelming: climate change endangers human health. Solutions exist and we need to act decisively to…
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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 One? Wednesday, September 3, 2014 1:20 – 3:20 p.m. Georgetown University Law Center Faculty Dining Room, Hotung Room 2001 550 First Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 MODERATORS Lawrence O. Gostin, University…
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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 board. In the first – the Jonathan Mann memorial lecture at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne – Kirby discussed the negative effects of punitive laws on…
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 editorial intern Laura Faas In When People Come First, João Biehl and Adriana Petryna note that “magic-bullet approaches” to global health, which target one specific disease, are limited because they overlook the societal, political,…
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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 HHR board member. In her review, Sorensen writes that Gostin “exhorts individual nations and the international community to apply meaningful governance standards to global health even as the right to health continues to evolve and gain acceptance.” She notes…
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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 Health (FCGH), aimed at helping eradicate persistent health inequities and establishing the right to health for all.” Though the recently launched website is only in its initial stages, the Steering Committee for…
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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 1990 could have been even greater. Elisa Diaz-Martinez and Elizabeth Gibbons argue that the narrow framing of MDG4 created a rupture from the previous 25 years’ worth of global endeavors to advance child survival in tandem…
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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 internationally acclaimed health scholar, Lawrence O. Gostin, offers a definitive work on a burgeoning field with his new book, Global Health Law (Harvard University Press). It published March 31, 2014. In a world rife with staggering health inequalities between…
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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) Emerging Issues in Food and Drug Law and (2) US Health Reform – The Affordable Care Act. Our Summer Programs convene leading practitioners, policymakers, advocates and academics in food…
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