Global Health & Human Rights

  • Read more: 10/22: Globalization and the Future of Health Law: Harmonization or Diversity?
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    10/22: Globalization and the Future of Health Law: Harmonization or Diversity?

    Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Co-Director I. Glenn Cohen will give the introduction for this event featuring Belinda Bennett, Professor of Health and Medical Law, University of Sydney. From its earliest stages, the themes of recognizing rights and managing risks have been constant features of health law debate. More recently, globalization has become an important theme for health law….

  • Read more: If You Could Take a Pill to Greatly Reduce Your Chance of HIV Infection, Would You?
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    If You Could Take a Pill to Greatly Reduce Your Chance of HIV Infection, Would You?

    By I. Glenn Cohen I have been a bit slow on blogging recently due to moving to a new house at the start of a semester (remind me why I thought *that* would be an OK idea again?) but I did want to share this very interesting piece from the New Yorker by Christopher Glazek…

  • Read more: Beyond Roe: Reproductive Justice in A Changing World
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    Beyond Roe: Reproductive Justice in A Changing World

    By Michele Goodwin Blogging highlights from Rutgers-Camden (conference coordinated by Professor Kimberly Mutcherson) A few blog highlights from the Beyond Roe conference at Rutgers-Camden: Excellent Keynote remarks presented by Byllye Avery, founder of Black Women’s Health Imperative and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (aka Genius Award). Dr. Avery urges a close examination of the states challenging reproductive…

  • Read more: Haiti in a Time of Cholera
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    Haiti in a Time of Cholera

    By Efthimios Parasidis In the midst of “the world’s worst and fastest-spreading cholera epidemic“, with more than 685,000 infected and approximately 8,400 dead, five Haitian families are suing the United Nations in federal court in the Southern District of New York. The families are seeking $2.2 billion for the Haitian government’s relief efforts and unspecified…

  • Read more: Wednesday @ 8pm – Thomas Pogge: Effective Altruism or Mobilization for Institutional Reform?
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    Wednesday @ 8pm – Thomas Pogge: Effective Altruism or Mobilization for Institutional Reform?

    Harvard High-Impact Philanthropy presents Effective Altruism or Mobilization for Institutional Reform? a lecture by Thomas Pogge Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University Wednesday, October 9, 8 PM Sever 214 Professor Pogge will discuss whether some institutional reform efforts may be as effective or more effective…

  • Read more: The priorities in the benefit packages vs. the priorities of those who dole out the benefits
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    The priorities in the benefit packages vs. the priorities of those who dole out the benefits

    By Julian Urrutia In my last post I promised I would provide details about the new piece of statutory legislation that was recently enacted by the Colombian Congress on the right to health, but first I should talk a little more about the prior jurisprudence that set the stage for it–especially since there’s so much…

  • Read more: Live Blogging: The Globalization of Health Care, Legal and Ethical Issues
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    Live Blogging: The Globalization of Health Care, Legal and Ethical Issues

    By Holly Fernandez Lynch This afternoon the Petrie-Flom Center co-hosted a panel discussion (with the HLS Library and the Harvard Global Health Institute) of Glenn Cohen‘s new edited volume out from Oxford University Press, The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues.  Panelists were Professor Cohen, Sue Goldie, and Neel Shah; Einer Elhauge served as…

  • Read more: The Whitehall Studies and Human Rights
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    The Whitehall Studies and Human Rights

    By Nathaniel Counts Professor M. G. Marmot et al. conducted two studies, Whitehall I and Whitehall II, in which they studied morbidity and mortality in the British civil service sector in the 1960s and the 1980s.  British civil servants are under the same plan with the National Health Service, so the studies controlled for access…