40 results for "Lisa Forman"
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Equity, Human Rights, and the Quest for Coherence in Global Health Law
The health crisis of COVID-19 has provoked a pivotal moment of global health law reform that comes against larger shifts against international law, democracy, and human rights. In this light, it is perhaps not surprising that state-led amendments to the International Health Regulations…
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Human Rights Treaties Are an Important Part of the “International Health Instrumentariam”; Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?”
In their commentary, Haik Nikogosian and Ilona Kickbusch argue for the necessity of new binding international legal instruments for health to address complex health determinants and offer a cogent analysis of the implications of such treaties for future global health governance. Yet in doing so…
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The Ghost Is the Machine: How Can We Visibilize the Unseen Norms and Power of Global Health?; Comment on “Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health”
In his recent commentary, Gorik Ooms argues that “denying that researchers, like all humans, have personal opinions … drives researchers’ personal opinion underground, turning global health science into unconscious dogmatism or stealth advocacy, avoiding the crucial debate about the politics and…
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Global AIDS Funding and the Re-Emergence of AIDS ‘Exceptionalism’
Recent years have seen the re-emergence of charges of AIDS exceptionalism in response to ‘revolutionary’ increases in global funding for health that have coalesced around HIV/AIDS treatment. These increases are argued to illustrate that AIDS demands an exceptional and exaggerated portion of global…
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Interdependent Determinants of Health and Death? Examining the Linkages between Health Equity, Human Rights, and Democracy during COVID-19
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been characterised by health inequities in differential rates of COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality and differential access to essential COVID-19-related health care interventions such as vaccines. Inequities through the pandemic have deeply illuminated…
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Who Deserves Health Care in a Global Pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity for reflection on universal health coverage. We look at the case of the province of Ontario, Canada, which expanded health care entitlement during the pandemic to people not normally eligible for coverage, regardless of their citizenship or immigration…
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Assessing the UN High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines Report in Light of the Right to Health
Access to medicines is the lynchpin to realizing a range of human rights, public health and development imperatives. However, without strong policy action to increase access to affordable medicines, there is little hope of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals or of realizing the human right…
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Interrogating the Role of Human Rights in Remedying Global Inequities in Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
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Toward Human Rights-Consistent Responses to Health Emergencies: What Is the Overlap between Core Right to Health Obligations and Core International Health Regulation Capacities?
COVID-19 has highlighted the responsibilities of states under the International Health Regulations (IHR), as well as state accountability in case of a breach. These approaches and dimensions are valuable, as many COVID responses have breached human rights. We should also look beyond this crisis and…
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Rights Language in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Has Right to Health Discourse and Norms Shaped Health Goals?
While the right to health is increasingly referenced in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) discussions, its contribution to global health and development remains subject to considerable debate. This hypothesis explores the potential influence of the right to health on the formulation of health…
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An Inquiry into State Agreement and Practice on the International Law Status of the Human Right to Medicines
Global disparities in access to COVID-19 vaccines have brought back into focus questions about whether the right to medicines has assumed any level of binding legality within international law. In this paper, we attempt to answer this question by considering if there is evidence of subsequent state…
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Promoting children’s rights to health and well-being in the United States
Summary: The United States has a highly sophisticated pediatric healthcare system and spends more than any other country per capita on children’s healthcare. However, not all children have access to needed and affordable health care and the life expectancy and health outcomes of children in the…
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Analyzing the Human Rights Impact of Increased Digital Public Health Surveillance during the COVID-19 Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has led policy makers to expand traditional public health surveillance to take advantage of new technologies, such as tracking apps, to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2. This article explores the human rights dimensions of how these new surveillance technologies are being used…
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Health and human rights are inextricably linked in the COVID-19 response
To mitigate the spread of COVID-19, governments throughout the world have introduced emergency measures that constrain individual freedoms, social and economic rights and global solidarity. These regulatory measures have closed schools, workplaces and transit systems, cancelled public gatherings…
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Accountability in global health systems: insights from a network analysis of Purdue Pharmaceuticals
Abstract Beginning in 1996, Purdue Pharmaceuticals (Purdue) knowingly mislabeled and mass marketed OxyContin (oxycodone), an opioid painkiller, catalyzing the opioid crisis which has been responsible for more than 600 000 deaths in and beyond North America. This case is an extreme example of how…
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Unmasking legislative constraints: An institutional ethnography of linkage and engagement in HIV healthcare for African, Caribbean, and Black people in Ontario, Canada.
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic significantly impacts African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) immigrants in Canada. Health scholarship has revealed striking injustices within Canada's public healthcare system that restrict access to healthcare and violate the human rights of ACB…
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Between rules and resistance: moving public health emergency responses beyond fear, racism and greed
In times of a public health emergency, lawyers and ethicists play a key role in ensuring that government responses, such as travel restrictions, are both legally and ethically justified. However, when travel bans were imposed in a broadly discriminatory manner against southern African countries in…