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COVID-19 Showcased Failed Global Cooperation

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2023

By Kayum Ahmed, Julia Bleckner, and Kyle Knight In mid-May, the World Health Organization officially declared the “emergency” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic over. This pattern has had lethal consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic, harming efforts to advance global solidarity.

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Human Rights Principles in Public Health Emergencies: From the Siracusa Principles to COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

One of us (LG) was involved in the drafting of the Siracusa Principles, which have become the chief international instrument governing permissible human rights limitations during national emergencies. The inadequacy of Siracusa in the the context of public health emergencies Then came COVID-19.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Continues

Bill of Health

JANUARY 12, 2023

Last month, the patent battle between COVID-19 mRNA vaccine manufacturers continued with BioNTech/Pfizer filing a strong defense and counter-claim to Moderna’s allegations of patent infringement. government committed more than one billion dollars to Moderna for development of its COVID-19 vaccines.

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Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pervasive inequities experienced by historically marginalized communities, including people with disabilities. Although disabled people have always experienced inequities concerning economic security, these disparities have grown substantially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Judging in the Pandemic – A Malawian Perspective

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Nevertheless, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major panic in the country’s legal system and judiciary. Additionally, the Government declared COVID-19 a “ formidable disease ” under the Public Health Act on April 1, 2020.

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Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform

Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised unprecedented challenges for the global health framework and its long-term consequences are not yet in full sight. This was witnessed in the early stages of COVID-19, when Vietnam and Taiwan decided to adopt stringent measures well before the end of January. By Ilja Richard Pavone.

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Responding to Public Health Emergencies by Upholding Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2023

By Anita Gholami The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which brings together parliamentarians from 46 member States, has been a vigilant guardian of respect for the European Convention on Human Rights and other international standards throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Using Legal Preparedness to Minimize Liability Barriers to Accessing Pandemic Vaccine and Medical Countermeasures

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified this legal challenge and highlighted the need to treat liability as a key legal preparedness issue. Widespread international health emergencies, and particularly pandemics, can lead to a major imbalance of negotiating power between manufacturers and governments.

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries. One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so.

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Non-State Actors and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

States maintain these obligations even when non-State actors are involved in health care financing, provision, and governance, albeit further normative development in this area is still urgently needed.

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Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.

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Making Explicit a Rights-Based Approach to Infodemic in a Public Health Emergency

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the accompanying infodemic gained visibility through the widespread use of digital resources, platforms and tools to support a range of social interactions, activities, and pandemic countermeasures.

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The Case for Procurement Transparency

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Tara Davis and Nicola Soekoe In January 2021, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” if wealthier nations did not ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. Impact of the judgment: what have records disclosed shown?

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Scarcity Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate: Age and Disability in Health Care Rationing

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

By Silvia Serrano Guzmán On July 4, 2023 the Constitutional Court of Colombia handed down a landmark decision on one of the most difficult dilemmas faced during the COVID-19 pandemic: the rationing of intensive care in situations of scarcity.

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. Taken together, my trend-weave opens the over-arching umbrella of ESG goals – for Environmental, Social, and Governance pillars have become strategic and impactful talking points in C-suites across all industry sectors.

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Where Has All The Talent Gone? The Skills Gap Stalling The March of UK Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 1, 2023

Peter Kearney, Chief Operating Officer of Virdis Group The UK life sciences industry is burgeoning and, thanks in part to the role played by Covid in supercharging a range of sectors, it is on a path toward further expansion. Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, recently stated his ambition for the country to become a life sciences ‘superpower’.

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How the Medical Industry Can Help Combat the Current Coronavirus Crisis

Exeed Regulatory Compliance

MARCH 5, 2020

A novel coronavirus, now called SARS-CoV-19, was first detected in the Hubei province of China in early December 2019. This guidance went into effect to allow some of the CLIA certified labs for high-complexity testing to begin using their newly developed tests for detecting the SARS-CoV-19 virus in suspect cases.

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Introducing the Global Health and Rights Project’s New Affiliated Researchers

Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

lá rightly characterizes as the slipperiness of both the terms “decolonizing” and “global health,” these calls speak to the need to reimagine governance structures, knowledge discourses, and legal frameworks — from intellectual property to international financial regulation.

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Can Children Consent to the COVID Vaccine? The Case of Foster Care and Juvenile Justice

Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Despite pediatric COVID-19 vaccine availability, many youth remain unvaccinated , and are thus at higher risk of life-altering outcomes as a result of contracting COVID-19. [1]. Youth in the foster care system and those who are justice-involved face additional challenges during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

What lessons can be learned from the COVID-19 stress-test to build American health care back better? Public health linkages, investing in shared digital infrastructure and defining governance and roles for accountability. ” That was 2005. The coronavirus pandemic exposed weaknesses in the U.S.

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Is a Federal Medical License Constitutional?

Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Some scholars have interpreted this to mean that the federal government has the right under the Commerce Clause to regulate all medical licensure. Gupta cites the Dormant Commerce Clause doctrine, a court-invented principle which allows the federal government to strike down state laws deemed excessively burdensome to interstate trade.

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A Rural Georgia Community Reels After Its Hospital Closes

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

” The Cuthbert hospital was one of 19 rural hospitals in the U.S. That’s the largest number of such facilities to shut down in a single year since 2005, when the Cecil G. In several of those states, including Georgia, Republican-led governments have said such a step would be too costly. that closed in 2020.

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Considerations from Argentina on the Judicial Control of Public Health Policies

Bill of Health

APRIL 14, 2023

By María Natalia Echegoyemberry and Francisco Verbic This article looks at the COVID-19 pandemic response in Argentina, with a particular focus on the judicial control of public health policies. We focus on a case in Argentina where a federal judge ordered the suspension of the campaign for pediatric vaccination against COVID-19.

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Health Care Compliance Brief

COVID-19 Showcased Failed Global Cooperation

Human Rights Principles in Public Health Emergencies: From the Siracusa Principles to COVID-19 and Beyond

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COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Continues

Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

Judging in the Pandemic – A Malawian Perspective

Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Responding to Public Health Emergencies by Upholding Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law

Using Legal Preparedness to Minimize Liability Barriers to Accessing Pandemic Vaccine and Medical Countermeasures

Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Non-State Actors and Public Health Emergencies

Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Making Explicit a Rights-Based Approach to Infodemic in a Public Health Emergency

The Case for Procurement Transparency

Scarcity Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate: Age and Disability in Health Care Rationing

The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Where Has All The Talent Gone? The Skills Gap Stalling The March of UK Life Sciences

How the Medical Industry Can Help Combat the Current Coronavirus Crisis

Introducing the Global Health and Rights Project’s New Affiliated Researchers

Can Children Consent to the COVID Vaccine? The Case of Foster Care and Juvenile Justice

Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Is a Federal Medical License Constitutional?

A Rural Georgia Community Reels After Its Hospital Closes

Considerations from Argentina on the Judicial Control of Public Health Policies

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