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

Bill of Health

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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Climate Change and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Key Takeaways from the WHO-WIPO-WTO Trilateral Symposium

Bill of Health

By Aparajita Lath* The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), hosted the 10 th Trilateral Symposium on Human Health and Climate Change in Geneva this November. HLS and Student fellow, PFC, 2022-2023.

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

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At the same time, they are regularly treated as commodities , often in ways that are completely divorced from their public health value. How may we convince these actors — governments, private-sector companies, funders — to agree to a more equitable allocative framework?

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COVID-19: Vaccine mandate enforced in Austria

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In return, the Austrian government loosened public restrictions. The target to vaccinate 80% per cent of the German population at least once by the end of January 2022 has not been reached, according to a government announcement yesterday. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Disability-Inclusive Climate Action in Bangladesh: Gaps and Opportunities

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Other researchers have found that “ many persons with disabilities do not receive any humanitarian support from NGOs or the Government ” following natural disasters. For me, the summer 2022 floods in Sunamganj and Sylhet districts exposed these considerable gaps in starkly human terms.

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The Trust Deficit Is Bad for Health: A Health/Care Lens on the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer

Health Populi

Health is the cornerstone to our core needs, thereby the cornerstone to trust.” ” So wrote Kirsty Graham , Global Leader of Sectors and Global Chair of Health at Edelman, in an essay explaining the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer. This is a global statistic that I look forward to exploring for the U.S.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill of Health

The answer to one of the most important public health questions of our time — who gets access to vaccines? — Private decisions did not match public health need. Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance. Underpinning this private power was intellectual property (IP).