The Government Needs to Construct On, Not Off, Ramps to Combat the Latest Wave of COVID
The federal government is failing to use the powers it has beyond vaccine mandates to create much needed on-ramps for mitigation measures.
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Read more: Casualties of Preparedness: Rethinking the Global Health Security Paradigm Casualties of Preparedness: Rethinking the Global Health Security Paradigm
The governance of global health security must systematically integrate different kinds of expertise and meaningfully represent states around the world.
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Read more: Strengthening Global and National Governance for Gender Equality in Health Emergencies Strengthening Global and National Governance for Gender Equality in Health Emergencies
An international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response should advance gender equality through inclusive global and national governance.
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Read more: The Pandemic Treaty as a Framework for Global Solidarity: Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Global Health Governance The Pandemic Treaty as a Framework for Global Solidarity: Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Global Health Governance
WHO has an opportunity to advance extraterritorial obligations under the right to health as an international legal basis for global solidarity.
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Read more: Déjà Vu All Over Again Déjà Vu All Over Again
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us time and time again that whatever progress we make in curbing transmission of the virus is fragile and easily reversed.
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Read more: 21st Century Lawmaking in an Interdependent World 21st Century Lawmaking in an Interdependent World
A new pandemic instrument should explicitly embrace the three emerging global regulatory standards of due diligence, due regard, and regulatory coherence.
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Read more: Strengthening International Legal Authorities to Advance Global Health Security Strengthening International Legal Authorities to Advance Global Health Security
An innovative pandemic treaty could become a transformative model of global solidarity in the face of common threats.
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Read more: Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action
The state-centric infectious disease regime violates the fundamental principle of how contagious diseases spread within and across countries.
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Read more: Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City
Where a health state is intertwined with carceral logics, enforcement becomes coercive.
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Read more: What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’? What Makes Social Movements ‘Healthy’?
Social movements’ impact need not be salutatory, as is evident by the success that the anti-vax movement has had during the COVID-19 pandemic.
