Health & Human Rights

Human rights are essential to global health. The inextricable linkages between global health and human rights have given rise to the interdisciplinary field of “health and human rights.” Through this field, human rights offer universal frameworks to advance justice in global health under international law, elaborating the freedoms and entitlements necessary to realize dignity for all.
PublicationsPresentationsPublic Engagement
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
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Mar 2024
Reforming Global Health Law to Ensure Human Rights in Global Health
Civil Society Alliance for Human Rights in the Pandemic Accord
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Oct 2023
Human Rights Concerns in the Pandemic Accord: Negotiating Draft
Global Health Law Consortium / Geneva Summer Schools
Presentations
Jun 2023
Global Health Law Summer School
Civil Society Alliance for Human Rights in the Pandemic Treaty
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Feb 2023
Human Rights Concerns in Zero Draft of the WHO CA+
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Publications
Oct 2022
Climate Change, Public Health and Human Rights
Al Jazeera
Public Engagement
Feb 2022
Human Rights in the COVID-19 Response
McGill Perspectives on Global Health
Public Engagement
Nov 2021
Advancing Human Rights in Global Health through the Pandemic Treaty
Opinio Juris
Public Engagement
Nov 2021
Human Rights Must Guide a Pandemic Treaty
Triangle Global Health Consortium
Presentations
Nov 2021
Human Rights Advocacy in an Evolving Global Health Landscape
Health and Human Rights in the Climate Crisis
Presentations
Oct 2021
Climate Change, Public Health & Human Rights
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Public Engagement
Oct 2021
Meier receives APHA Mid-Career Award in International Health
Yearbook of International Disaster Law Conference: Is International Disaster Law Protecting Us?
Presentations
Oct 2021
Human Rights Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mainstreaming Human Rights in a Pandemic Treaty
Global Health Law Consortium
Public Engagement
Jul 2021
Decolonising Human Rights in Global Health
OpinioJuris: In association with the International Commission of Jurists
Public Engagement
Jun 2021
Reshaping Global Health Law in the Wake of COVID-19 to Uphold Human Rights
World Health Assembly Side Event
Public Engagement
May 2021
Strengthening Human Rights to Respond to Pandemic Threats
Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Publications
May 2021
Background Paper 11: Human Rights Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Maternal Health Innovations Program
Presentations
Apr 2021
Rights-Based Approaches to Maternity Care
Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Presentations
Mar 2021
Human Rights Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic
OpinioJuris: In association with the International Commission of Jurists
Public Engagement
Feb 2021
Harmonizing Global Health Law and Human Rights Law to Develop Rights-Based Approaches to Global Health Emergencies
Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law: The Future of Global Health Governance
Presentations
Jan 2021
The Role of International Organizations in Global Health Governance
UNC Research
Public Engagement
Dec 2020
Setting a Field Alight
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health: Gillings School News
Public Engagement
Nov 2020
AJPH editorial: Populism threatens the public health response to COVID-19
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
Presentations
Oct 2020
Analyzing the human rights impacts of national pandemic responses
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Publications
Oct 2020
Facilitating Access to a COVID-19 Vaccine through Global Health Law
Lancet Public Health
Publications
Sep 2020
The Shibboleth of Human Rights in Public Health
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health: Gillings School News
Public Engagement
Aug 2020
Public health education needs a human rights focus
UNC College of Arts & Sciences
Public Engagement
Aug 2020
Bookmark This: Benjamin Mason Meier
Health & Human Rights Journal
Public Engagement
Aug 2020
Tlaleng Mofokeng: Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
Infectious diseases in the New Millennium: Legal and Ethical Challenges
Publications
Mar 2020
Rights-Based Approaches to Preventing, Detecting, and Responding to Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Health & Human Rights Journal
Publications
Jan 2020
Human Rights in Global Health Governance
Health & Human Rights Journal
Public Engagement
Jan 2020
Human Rights Education Must Become Central to the Health Curriculum
Health & Human Rights Journal
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Dec 2019
Human Rights for Health across the United Nations
Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Nov 2019
Global Health Advancement through Human Rights Accountability: A Public Health Imperative for Human Rights Research
Global Health Governance Training Program, Duke University
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Nov 2019
Human Rights in Global Health Governance
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California
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Oct 2019
Doomed to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past?: The Post-2015 Agenda and the Neglect of Human Rights for Global Health
Brocher Alumni Conference, Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland
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Jun 2019
Employing Human Rights to Advance Global Health
Health Law Professors Conference, Loyola Law School, Chicago, Illinois
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Jun 2019
Comparative Research on Human Rights Law in Global Health Governance
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Apr 2019
South Africa’s Role in Informing Health and Human Rights
University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Presentations
Apr 2019
Global Health & Human Rights
Consortium of Universities for Global Health, Chicago, Illinois
Presentations
Mar 2019
Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Public Engagement
Dec 2018
Human Rights Day 2018: Human Rights are a Public Health Issue
Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland
Presentations
Dec 2018
Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World