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Public Health Emergencies and Human Rights Principles: A Solidarity Approach

Bill of Health

By Anne Kjersti Befring and Cecilia Marcela Bailliet Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic posed a grave threat to humanity and revealed the need for a new approach to improve transnational cooperation within the global health system and new perspectives on solidarity addressing the cross-border spread of infection and distribution of vaccines.

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Disability-Inclusive Climate Action in Bangladesh: Gaps and Opportunities

Bill of Health

Estimates of the number of persons with disabilities affected by the 2022 floods in Bangladesh by the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Task Team appear unbelievably low compared with World Health Organization estimates. Here, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has a critical role to play.

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COP29 and the UNFCCC’s Health Turn: Progress or Peril?

Bill of Health

The Health Pavilion at COP29 represented the momentum that has been building since COP16 to acknowledge the climate-health nexus within the UNFCCC. The post COP29 and the UNFCCCs Health Turn: Progress or Peril? Yet this progress was not abstracted from the structural bias shaping the broader climate governance regime.

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Non-State Actors and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

By Rossella De Falco Strong, well-coordinated and resilient public health care services play a vital role in preventing and responding to public health crises. What are, however, the specific legal and ethical implications of involving private actors in health care vis-à-vis public health emergencies?

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The Elevator, Trust and the Data Commons: Bart de Witte Makes the Case for Open AI for Health at WHO/Europe

Health Populi

“I’m in Berlin, and we don’t like walls,” Bart De Witte responded in a concluding Q&A session yesterday at the 2 nd Symposium on the Future of Health Systems, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Porto on 5 th September. For health care in the U.S.

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

Bill of Health

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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Value Comes to Healthcare: But Whose Value Is It?

Health Populi

Three reports published in the past few weeks give us some useful perspective on that question, woven together in today’s Health Populi blog. Let’s start with the Philips Future Health Index , which assesses value to 16 national health systems through three lenses: access, satisfaction, and efficiency.