Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 23, 2020
As millions of healthcare workers begin receiving the first vaccination to protect against COVID-19, public health officials and government leaders continue wrestling with not only the operational challenges of scale—this is the first mass vaccination since smallpox (1958-1977) and polio (1980s-present)—but also […].
Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
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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Health Law Pulse
JANUARY 21, 2022
A little over one week later, we reported that the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency after COVID-19 was detected in eighteen countries, infecting almost 10,000 people and killing more than two hundred.
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 24, 2023
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.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
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.
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 7, 2023
In 2016, the Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the existing worldwide health-system architecture to be strengthened with an empowered, well-governed, sustainably financed, and accountable World Health Organization at its apex, and efficient, equitable, and resilient national health systems at its foundation.
Bill of Health
AUGUST 29, 2022
An estimated 500,000 patents were pledged under the Open COVID Pledge, with over a million more pledged under a similar Japanese effort. Like the Open COVID Pledge before it, Moderna’s pledge expressly states that it is valid only “ while the pandemic continues. Pfizer made such a vaccine. Moderna’s Pledge. Updating” the Pledge.
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