Abstract:
Is the right to health a basic human right? Professor Lawrence Gostin makes the case for the right to health in the context of global health with justice. He reflects on his advocacy for the cause through the efforts of him and his colleagues in promoting the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) as a basis for a ‘global health treaty based health treaty based on the right to health and aimed and closing national and global health inequities. It would provide standards to ensure health care and underlying determinants of health, such as clean water and nutritious food, for all, along with an international and domestic financing framework to secure sufficient, sustained funds, while addressing the social determinants of health. It would establish a transformative understanding of the right to health to create the accountability now missing and adapt the right to our globalized world. It would establish pathways towards national and global health equity, with a special concern for marginalized populations, and further inclusive and democratic decision-making on health and related concerns, domestically and internationally.’
Is the right to health a basic human right? Professor Lawrence Gostin makes the case for the right to health in the context of global health with justice. He reflects on his advocacy for the cause through the efforts of him and his colleagues in promoting the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) as a basis for a ‘global health treaty based health treaty based on the right to health and aimed and closing national and global health inequities. It would provide standards to ensure health care and underlying determinants of health, such as clean water and nutritious food, for all, along with an international and domestic financing framework to secure sufficient, sustained funds, while addressing the social determinants of health. It would establish a transformative understanding of the right to health to create the accountability now missing and adapt the right to our globalized world. It would establish pathways towards national and global health equity, with a special concern for marginalized populations, and further inclusive and democratic decision-making on health and related concerns, domestically and internationally.’
Speaker:
Professor Lawrence Gostin is University Professor, Georgetown University’s highest academic rank conferred by the University President. Professor Gostin is the Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and is the Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law. He served as Associate Dean for Research at Georgetown Law from 2004 to 2008. He is Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University and Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University.
Professor Lawrence Gostin is University Professor, Georgetown University’s highest academic rank conferred by the University President. Professor Gostin is the Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and is the Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law. He served as Associate Dean for Research at Georgetown Law from 2004 to 2008. He is Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University and Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University.
