Talk Series: Health and Human Rights Lecture

The lawmaking reflexes that followed the COVID 19 pandemic have shifted global health debates away from hard won human rights norms and toward more ambiguous ideas of equity and solidarity. In this lecture, Dr. Roojin Habibi (University of Ottawa) traces this “equitification” of rights through the negotiations that led to...

Hybrid Zoom Link New and emerging healthcare technologies—including whole genome sequencing, wearables, and AI assisted treatments—offer innovative possibilities for realizing the right to health. These technologies hold the potential for automatizing certain processes to free up time for healthcare professionals to spend with patients, detecting disease more accurately and swiftly, and furthering access in remote communities. However, digital...

    Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng (MBChB) serves as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.  As a South African medical doctor and a sexual and reproductive health specialist, “Dr. T” has long advocated for advancements in sexual and reproductive health...

Alicia Yamin is Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, Adjunct Lecturer on Law and Global Health at Harvard University, Panelist on the UN Secretary General’s Independent Accountability Panel for the SDGs (EWEC), and Global Fellow at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation in Norway. The 2017 Health and...

Health care (e.g., surgery) and public health (e.g., vaccinations) contribute to an individual’s health in very different ways. This lecture investigates the significance of this difference for a human right to health. Dr. Gopal Sreenivasan is the Crown University Professor in Ethics at Duke University. His primary research interests are...

Veronica Magar (DrPH, MPH, MA) currently leads the Gender, Equity and Human Rights Team at the World Health Organization, with the mandate to mainstream WHO’s priority cross-cutting themes across all policies and programs. Before joining WHO in 2013, she held the position of Executive Director of r e a c h (research and action...