Global Health Law & Policy - Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World

Global Health Law & Policy presents the global governance necessary to respond to the health threats of the twenty-first century, laying an academic foundation to address the legal challenges in global health.

List of contents

• Foreword: The Law as a Fundamental Determinant of Global Health by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
  


• Preface: A Field Born of Trying Times
  


• List of Contributors
  


• Introduction: Foundations of Global Health Law and Policy by Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier
  


• I. FRAMEWORKS and INSTITUTIONS OF GLOBAL HEALTH: SHIFTING ACTORS and NORMS IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
  


• 1: Global Health: Global Determinants, Global Governance, and Global Law by Lawrence O. Gostin and Alexandra Finch


• 2: Global Health Law: Legal Frameworks to Advance Global Health by Sharifah Sekalala and Roojin Habibi


• 3: Global Health Landscape: The Proliferating Actors Influencing Global Health Governance by Benjamin Mason Meier and Matiangai Sirleaf


• 4: Global Health Norms: Human Rights, Equity, and Social Justice in Global Health by Judith Bueno de Mesquita and Lisa Forman


• 5: Global Health Diplomacy: The Process of Developing Global Health Law and Policy by Gian Luca Burci and Björn Kümmel
  


• II. GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION and HEALTH PROMOTION
  


• 6: Infectious Disease: Preventing, Detecting, and Responding to Pandemic Threats under International Law by Pedro A. Villarreal and Lauren Tonti


• 7: Non- Communicable Disease: Regulating Commercial Determinants Underlying Health by Roger Magnusson and Lawrence O. Gostin


• 8: Mental Health: From Institutions to Community Inclusion by Priscila Rodríguez and Eric Rosenthal


• 9: Environmental Health: Regulating Clean Air and Water as Underlying Determinants of Health by Marlies Hesselman and Benjamin Mason Meier
  


• III. ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS, CORPORATE REGULATION, and GLOBAL HEALTH FUNDING
  


• 10: Sustainable Development: The 2030 Agenda and Its Implications for Global Health Law by Stéphanie Dagron and Jennifer Hasselgård- Rowe


• 11: Economic Development Policy: Poverty Alleviation for Public Health Advancement by Diane A. Desierto and Erica Patterson


• 12: International Trade Governance: Free Trade and Intellectual Property Threaten Public Health by Lisa Forman, Katrina Perehudoff, and Chuan- Feng Wu


• 13: Commercial Determinants of Health: Corporate Social Responsibility as Smokescreen or Global Health Policy? by Roojin Habibi and Thana C. de Campos- Rudinsky


• 14: Global Health Funding Agencies: Developing New Institutions to Finance Health Needs by Sam Halabi and Lawrence O. Gostin
  


• IV. INTERNATIONAL LEGAL EFFORTS TO ADDRESS RISING HEALTH THREATS
  


• 15: Antimicrobial Resistance: Collective Action to Support Shared Global Resources by Isaac Weldon and Steven J. Hoffman


• 16: Pathogen Sharing: Balancing Access to Pathogen Samples with Equitable Access to Medicines by Mark Eccleston- Turner and Michelle Rourke


• 17: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Advancing Human Rights to Protect Bodily Autonomy and Sexuality by Aziza Ahmed and Terry McGovern


• 18: Health in Conflict: International Humanitarian Law as Global Health Policy by Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum and Benjamin Mason Meier


• 19: Climate Change: A Cataclysmic Health Threat Requiring Global Action by Alexandra Phelan and Kim van Daalen


• 20: Universal Health Coverage: Whole of Government Approaches to Determinants of Health by Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier
  


• Afterword: Foundational Information for a New Generation by Steven Solomon
  


• Index

About the author

Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor (Georgetown University's highest academic rank), Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, and serves on expert WHO advisory committees. He is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences, Council on Foreign Relations, Global Health Law Consortium, and Hastings Center.

Benjamin Mason Meier is Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Senior Scholar at Georgetown Law School's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Chair of the Global Health Law Consortium, and a consultant to international organizations, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations. Dr. Meier's interdisciplinary research--at the intersection of global health, international law, and public policy--examines the development, evolution, and application of human rights law in global health governance.

Summary

Globalization has unleashed the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases, connected societies through vulnerability to common threats, and revealed the limitations of domestic legislation in addressing economic, social, and political determinants of health. Yet if globalization has presented challenges to disease prevention and health promotion, with the COVID-19 pandemic making clear the governance challenges ahead, global health law offers the promise of bridging national boundaries to alleviate global inequities.

The academic field of global health law analyzes the law and policy frameworks that apply to the new public health threats, non-state actors, and regulatory instruments that structure global health. Arising out of international health law--which narrowly focuses on relationships among states--the field of global health law reflects the changing institutional architecture, norms, and diplomacy necessary to respond to the health threats of the twenty-first century.

The new law and policy frameworks, placing public health obligations on the global community of state and non-state actors, ensure justice in global health through institutions that embrace values of transparent governance, multisectoral engagement, and legal accountability. As the study and practice of global health law has expanded over the past decade, and especially through the COVID-19 response, students and scholars require a foundational text to comprehend this shifting landscape.

Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier have edited this text to help readers understand the promise of law and policy in global health. Assembling leading academics across the field of global health law, this volume (1) explains the conceptual frameworks and governance institutions that define the field, (2) applies global health governance to disease prevention and health promotion, (3) examines economic institutions that influence global health, and (4) analyzes international legal efforts to address rising health threats.

Additional text

There is much to admire in this edited volume, including its ambitious coverage of the history, theory and empirical scope of global health law from the twentieth to the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Gostin, Lawrence O. (University Professor and Foun Gostin
• Assisted by: Lawrence O. Gostin (Editor), Benjamin Mason Meier (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2023
• EAN: 9780197687710
• ISBN: 978-0-19-768771-0
• No. of pages: 600
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; MEDICAL / Public Health, LAW / International, LAW / Public, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, Public International Law, Public health & preventive medicine, Medical & healthcare law, Public health and preventive medicine, Medical and healthcare law