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

Mobi Health News

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

Bill of Health

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.

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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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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Responding to Public Health Emergencies by Upholding Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law

Bill of Health

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.

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Experts showcase digital health solutions that help tackle COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

An app is being presented as THE solution to the pandemic, but it’s just to support local healthcare services,” he said. AI-fueled symptom checkers present with another benefit, he said: “They can help healthcare organisations to organise their peaks of high demands, avoiding saturation in primary care medicine.”

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