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

Bill of Health

The pandemic quickly proved the inadequacy of the Siracusa Principles in the specific context of public health emergencies. There are many reasons, but a few examples will suffice for the present context. UN bodies and the World Health Assembly should endorse the Principles, much as the ECOSOC did vis-à-vis the Siracusa Principles.

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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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WHO's director for Europe urges solidarity in using digital tools to combat COVID-19

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Hans Henri Kluge, the World Health Organization’s director for Europe, presented on digital tools during the FutureMed conference this afternoon.

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

Bill of Health

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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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill of Health

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.

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

Bill of Health

The goal of such a scheme would be to create a framework that is capacious enough to accommodate the competing (often, antagonistic) interests that recurringly emerge when there is concurrent transnational demand for scarce vaccine doses — those that are presently addressed through contract bilateralism.

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Psychedelic Inequities and Unexplored Risk: Colonization, Commercialization, and Regulation

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There is a common and problematic misconception that colonization was an isolated historical event and that the present is somehow divorced from its precedent. To explore how colonization drives health inequities, we have to acknowledge the causal relationship between what is past and what is present and think critically about colonization.