London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Summary:

This panel discussion analyses the evolving relationship between human rights, global governance, and public health, examining an expansive set of international organizations that employ human rights in responding to public health challenges in a rapidly globalizing world.

Panellists:

• Benjamin Mason Meier is an Associate Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Scholar at Georgetown Law School’s O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law.
• Sarah Hawkes is Professor of Global Public Health at University College London (UCL), where she leads a research theme analysing the use of evidence in policy processes, and the Founding Director of the UCL Centre for Gender and Global Health.
• Gorik J. Ooms is a Professor of Global Health Law & Governance at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Adjunct Professor at the Law Faculty of Georgetown University, and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Ghent University.
• Thérèse Murphy is Professor of Law and Director of the Health and Human Rights Unit at Queen’s University Belfast and a longstanding member of the editorial board of the Human Rights Law Review.
• Judith R. Bueno de Mesquita is a Lecturer in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre and the Deputy Director of the Human Rights Centre Clinic at the University of Essex.

• Rachel Hammonds is the Academic Coordinator of the Sustainable Development and Human Rights Law Programme at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp.