Perspectives

Fran Quigley Introduction The flaws of the modern medicine patent system are widely decried. The current system fails to develop medicines to address the health needs of the global poor and creates a platform for unaffordable pricing of the…

Eleanor Emery, Carmen Stellar, Krista Dubin, Taryn Clark, Aynsley Duncan, Alejandro Lopez, Joanne Ahola, Terri Edersheim, and Nicole Sirotin  Introduction  Every year, thousands of people seek legal asylum in the United States after…

Citizens in Singapore benefit from government funded health care, but migrant workers often do not (image credit John Siegel) CHAN Chee Khoon In recent years, WHO Member States have been urged to speed up reforms to ensure that all persons can have…

SDG Goal 3: Good Health Paul Hunt It is widely recognised that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) need to be supported by more effective follow-up and review—or accountability—processes than were available to the Millennium Development Goals…

(photo credit Raul Lieberwirth) Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium Student Essay Competition 2015. Georgetown University’s winning essay was written for the course “Business and Healthy Lifestyles,” taught by Professor Roger Magnasson,…

Cobblestone street in Antigua, Guatemala (photo credit Pedro Szekely) Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium Student Essay Competition 2015. University of Connecticut’s winning essay was written for the course “The Right to Health in Latin…

Buddha Basnyat When the earth shook violently at midday in Nepal on April 25, 2015, I was walking down my concrete staircase. As I was hurtled from side to side, I was certain I would die. Luckily, I didn’t. This was a pure privilege in the midst of…

Ross MacDonald, Zachary Rosner, Homer Venters Since the United Nations Convention Against Torture was adopted in 1984, training physicians to care for survivors of torture has become a valuable addition to traditional medical education. Throughout the…

Solitary Confinement and Mental Illness: Ethical Challenges for Clinicians; In Response to Glowa-Kollisch et al. Thomas R. Blair Keramet A. Reiter Published July 2, 2015 To the Editors: Glowa-Kollisch and colleagues present a…

Fran Quigley Representatives of Pacific Rim nations are negotiating a trade agreement that could negatively impact the health of millions. But the high-profile discussion about the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) also presents an…