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

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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 pandemic quickly proved the inadequacy of the Siracusa Principles in the specific context of public health emergencies.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

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Patents and trade secrets empower private actors to make decisions about pricing, production, and supply of important medical technologies — in short, about public health. Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance. Zain Rizvi is a research director at Public Citizen.

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The Light Collective amplifies its call for patient data rights

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In its current state, the bill lacks protections for data not covered by HIPAA, including personal health records, de-identified data and health data shared by patient groups on social media platforms such as Facebook, they argue.

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

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government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” Licensing structures like this go back at least to World War II, when the U.S. By Jorge L. Moderna’s Pledge. Updating” the Pledge. From 2020 to 2022, the U.S. Pfizer made such a vaccine.

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

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This symposium gathers reflections from leading scholars, activists, jurists, and others from around the world with respect to the recently issued Principles. Historically, Global Health Law has been permeated with colonialism and concerned with preserving travel and trade rather than protecting human dignity, health and life.

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Experts showcase digital health solutions that help tackle COVID-19

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Roger Lim, Dutch government, said principles of privacy and data minimisation were central to building the national contact tracing app: “We opened transparent processes on the technical choices made, because it’s essential to build trust for people to use this app. ON THE RECORD.

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What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines

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The most extreme embodiment of this phenomenon, vaccine nationalism , happens when perfectly lawful tools — contracts known as advance purchase agreements — are used to skew the allocation of vaccine doses to wealthier governments and their populations whenever there is a surge in transnational demand for a given vaccine.