Human Rights in Global Health

Benjamin Mason Meier is an Associate Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Scholar at Georgetown Law School's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, 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 in global health. 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 Public Health Law & Human Rights, and serves on expert WHO advisory committees. He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences, Council on Foreign Relations, and Hastings Center.

FOREWORD
Human Rights in Global Health Governance
Mary Robinson

PREFACE
Preface

INTRODUCTION
Responding to the Public Health Harms of a Globalizing World through Human Rights in Global Governance
Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin

PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS IN GLOBAL HEALTH

1. The Origins of Human Rights in Global Health
Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier

2. The Evolution of Applying Human Rights Frameworks to Health
Alicia Ely Yamin and Andrés Constantin

3. Framing Human Rights in Global Health Governance
Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin

4. The Future of Global Governance for Health: Putting Rights at the Center of Sustainable Development
Michel Sidibé, Helena Nygren-Krug, Bronwyn McBride, and Kent Buse

PART II: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

5. Development of Human Rights Through WHO
Benjamin Mason Meier and Florian Kastler

6. Mainstreaming Human Rights Across WHO
Rebekah Thomas and Veronica Magar

7. The Future of Human Rights in WHO
Flavia Bustreo, Veronica Magar, Rajat Khosla, Marcus Stahlhofer, and Rebekah Thomas

PART III: INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

8. The United Nations Children's Fund: Implementing Human Rights for Child Health
Benjamin Mason Meier, Mitra Motlagh, and Kumanan Rasanathan

9. The International Labor Organization: Human Rights to Health and Safety at Work
Lee Swepston

10. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Advancing Global Health Through Human Rights in Education and Science
Audrey Chapman and Konstantinos Tararas

11. The United Nations Population Fund: An Evolving Human Rights Mission and Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health
Emilie Filmer-Wilson and Luis Mora

12. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Advancing the Right to Food to Promote Public Health
Olivier de Schutter and Carolin Anthes

13. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS: With Communities for Human Rights
Helena Nygren-Krug

14. The Future of Intergovernmental Partnerships for Health and Human Rights
Sarah Hawkes, Julia Kreienkamp, and Kent Buse

PART IV: GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE & GLOBAL HEALTH FUNDING AGENCIES

15. Integrating a Human Rights-Based Approach and the Right to Development into Global Governance for Health
Stephen P. Marks

16. The World Bank: Contested Institutional Progress in Rights-Based Health Discourse
Yusra Ribhi Shawar and Jennifer Prah Ruger

17. The World Trade Organization: Carving Out the Right to Health for Access to Medicines and Tobacco Control
Suerie Moon and Thirukumaran Balasubramaniam

18. National Foreign Assistance Programs: Advancing Health-Related Human Rights Through Shared Obligations for Global Health
Rachel Hammonds and Gorik Ooms

19. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria: Funding Basic Services and Meeting the Challenge of Rights-Based Programs
Ralf Jürgens, Joanne Csete, Hyeyoung Lim, Susan Timberlake, and Matthew Smith

20. The Future of Multilateral Funding to Realize the Right to Health
Gorik Ooms and Rachel Hammonds

PART V: GLOBAL HEALTH IN HUMAN RIGHTS GOVERNANCE

21. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Putting the Right to Health on the Agenda
Gillian MacNaughton and Mariah McGill

22. United National Special Procedures: Peopling Human Rights, Peopling Global Health
Thérèse Murphy and Amrei Mueller

23. Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Monitoring, Interpreting, and Adjudicating Health-Related Human Rights
Benjamin Mason Meier and Virginia Brás Gomes

24. The Future of Human Rights Accountability for Global Health under the Universal Periodic Review
Judith R. Bueno de Mesquita and Dabney P. Evans

PART VI: CONCLUSION AND AFTERWORD

CONCLUSION
25. Comparative Analysis on Human Rights in Global Governance for Health
Benjamin Mason Meier and Lawrence O. Gostin

AFTERWORD
Governance for Global Health and Human Rights in a Populist Age
Benjamin Mason Meier

Index