Law’s power to safeguard global health: a Lancet–O’Neill Institute,...
The law-–global, national, and subnational–-plays a vital, yet often underappreciated, role in safeguarding and promoting the public’s health. In this article, we launch the Lancet-O’Neill Institute,...
View ArticleA Retrospective and Prospective Analysis of the West African Ebola Virus...
The West African Ebola epidemic is a pivotal moment for the global health system. Just as the depth of the crisis ultimately spurred an unprecedented response, the failures of leadership demand...
View ArticleWhy Healthy Behavior Is the Hard Choice
Our society is structured to encourage unhealthy diets and physically inactive lifestyles, which are key risk factors for chronic diseases including diabetes, heart diseases, and cancers. We are...
View ArticleAn O’Neill Institute Briefing Paper: Ebola, the World Health Organization,...
The West African Ebola epidemic has demonstrated that the world remains ill-prepared to respond to infectious disease outbreaks. A host of institutions are now reviewing what went wrong, and new...
View ArticleThe Americans with Disabilities Act at 25: The Highest Expression of American...
Enacted in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a watershed piece of legislation which enshrines in law a social promise of equality and inclusion into all facets of life, while offering...
View ArticleIndonesia Has It Backward: It's Not E-Cigarettes That's the Problem but Smoking
Indonesia has announced it will be banning e-cigarettes. But that would do nothing to reduce smoking, which should be the main target of those interested in reducing tobacco use deaths and harms....
View ArticleMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome: A Global Health Challenge
Beginning in May 2015, Middle-East respiratory syndrome (MERS) experienced its first publicly reported “super-spreading” event in South Korea. By mid-June, more than 120 cases and 11 deaths in South...
View ArticlePublic health, universal health coverage, and Sustainable Development Goals:...
In her 2012 reconfirmation speech as WHO Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan asserted: "universal coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer. It is our ticket to...
View ArticleKing v Burwell: Subsidizing US Health Insurance for Low- and Middle-Income...
In King v. Burwell, the U.S. Supreme Court once again saved the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by upholding subsidies (tax credits) offered to low- and middle-income individuals for insurance bought on...
View ArticleThe Normative Authority of the World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) was born after the devastation of World War II, as a normative agency endowed with unprecedented constitutional powers. But even as it has achieved stunning...
View ArticleSexual Assaults Among University Students: Prevention, Support, and Justice
Sexual assault is common among college-aged women (18 to 25 years), with 1 in 5 reporting having experienced these crimes during their college years. Acute and long-term consequences of sexual assault...
View ArticleForced Migration, The Human Face of a Health Crisis
Nearly 60 million refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced persons (IDPs) fled their homes in 2014, predominately from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia. The global response to...
View ArticleAn Independent Review and Accountability Mechanism for the Sustainable...
The Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH), a proposed global treaty to be rooted in the right to health and aimed at health equity, could establish a nuanced, layered, and multi-faceted regime...
View ArticleImagining Global Health with Justice: In Defense of the Right to Health
The singular message in Global Health Law is that we must strive to achieve global health with justice—improved population health, with a fairer distribution of benefits of good health. Global health...
View ArticleFDA-Required Tobacco Product Inserts & Onserts – and the First Amendment
In 2012, a federal court of appeals struck down an FDA rule requiring graphic health warnings on cigarettes as violating First Amendment commercial speech protections. Tobacco product inserts and...
View ArticleAre There Any Ethical Barriers to Effective Antismoking Measures?
The tobacco industry and its allies often attack tobacco control measures as paternalistic efforts that violate smokers’ rights and interfere with individual liberty. Although these arguments have no...
View ArticleEffectively Regulating E-Cigarettes and Their Advertising—and the First...
If tobacco smoking did not exist in the United States, there would be no reason, from a public health perspective, to allow addictive, nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be marketed and sold. Because...
View ArticleLaw, criminalisation and HIV in the world: have countries that criminalise...
How do choices in criminal law and rights protections affect disease-fighting efforts? This long-standing question facing governments around the world is acute in the context of pandemics like HIV and...
View ArticleVaccine Politics: Law and Inequality in the Pandemic Response to COVID-19
International mechanisms failed to achieve equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines—prolonging and deepening the pandemic. To understand why, we conduct process tracing of the first year of...
View ArticleIntellectual Property and the Politics of Public Good in COVID-19: Framing...
Context: To facilitate the manufacturing of COVID-19 medical products, in October 2020, India and South Africa proposed a waiver of certain WTO intellectual property (IP) provisions. After 18 months,...
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