Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
By Katherine Macfarlane Public health in the U.S. This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. It explores how they must negotiate public health measures on their own.
Bill of Health
APRIL 24, 2023
Yet Dmitry Karshtedt held otherwise at the ASLME Health Law Professor’s Conference in Atlanta, GA in 2017. On a panel together, we each presented on topics relating to product hopping, but from very different perspectives. But perhaps other forms of public health benefit would outweigh these harms?
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Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
By Taleed El-Sabawi The use of emergency public health powers by state and local governments during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic led to intense public criticism followed by legislative attempts (include some successes) to strip state executives of this authority. health care and public health are not the same.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.
Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
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.
Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
By Eduardo Arenas Catalán The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles), entail a notable attempt to consolidate lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. The critical notion of shared but differentiated responsibilities is thus strengthened within global public health.
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 24, 2023
By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.
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