Tobacco Control & Environmental Health

Working with the World Health Organization’s Tobacco Free Initiative, I was able to see firsthand the weaknesses of legal obligations of human rights in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Applying the human right to health as a means to reframe global health policy, I examined tobacco cessation and harm reduction policy, working with the Human Rights & Tobacco Control Network to support individual health autonomy for those addicted to nicotine. This work in tobacco control provided a foundation to address the health harms of household air pollution, supporting environmental health by examining how human rights can support clean cookstove policy.