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

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Extensive abuses of human rights during the pandemic led international experts to draft the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (HR Principles). The inadequacy of Siracusa in the the context of public health emergencies Then came COVID-19.

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

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I explore this analogy in a recently published article in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics ( JLME ), Increasing Equity in the Transnational Allocation of Vaccines Against Emerging Pathogens: A Multi-Modal Approach. Vaccines are pharmaceutical products, a critical tool in public and global health.

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

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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.

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Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

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During large transnational public health crises, global demand soars for diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. At the research and development (R&D) stage, government funders can bind producers to equity goals through targeted contractual provisions, as we explain in a recently-published Nature Biotechnology article.

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Making Explicit a Rights-Based Approach to Infodemic in a Public Health Emergency

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By Calvin Wai-Loon Ho With the mainstreaming of digital technology across many spheres of social life, infodemic management must be an integral part of public health emergency prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.

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Disability-Inclusive Climate Action in Bangladesh: Gaps and Opportunities

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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. A robust General Comment on Article 11 of the CRPD may help to close these gaps.

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Bioethics Experts vs Ordinary South Africans on the Governance of Human Genome Editing

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In the same year that the deliberative public engagement study on heritable HGE was conducted in South Africa, an expert advisory committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) published its policy proposals for a global governance framework for HGE.

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