1/3 It's the final countdown towards our The British Academy Wellcome Human Rights Centre conference 'the realisation of human rights in societies beyond growth' on 30 April-1 May. Zoom registrations still open here essex.ac.uk/events/2024/04…. We have a wonderful line up!

I wouldn't be in Argentina if it weren't for public education. Today, the University of Buenos Aires is turning off the lights because it can't afford the power. Tomorrow, there's a massive march to defend public education. Re-sharing this 🍏✏️ buenosairesherald.com/society/i-woul…

I am delighted to announce the launch of “Law, Health, and Society” - a new collaborative research unit to explore health law regulation, & ethics to improve the wellbeing & health outcomes of society. As its Director I welcome you to learn more here - lawhealthsociety.com

10 years after the horrific West African Ebola epidemic, we have life-saving treatments

Yet they remain under the control of just two US pharma corporations

And they're almost exclusively kept in a US stockpile for national security purposes

From MSF International 👇doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-cal…

I was very pleased to talk to the Harvard University gazette about the soon to be argued case in the Supreme Court about whether Idaho’s abortion law is preempted by EMTALA in cases related to the health of the pregnant person news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

C how the Council uses mRNA Tech Transfer Programme as a model of a collective effort towards resilient epidemic preparedness and response capacity for the common good.
Register for the seminar on 19 Apr at 12:00 GMT:
who.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Mariana Mazzucato Dr Ritu Sadana Martin Friede

WHO is central to the development of #GlobalHealthLaw – but has faced challenges from:
- new health actors,
- shifting normative frameworks &
- soft law diplomacy.
In PLOS Global Public Health, the Global Health Law Consortium examines the long evolution of global health law under World Health Organization (WHO). journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

Thrilled to finally share this new essay on the semantics of 'global health' and its history in JCPH and support their mission of independent, open-access public health publishing against the for-profit scientific machine. Check it out below! journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph…

🚨 Advance publication 🚨
Happy to see this out in a fantastic special issue of the prestigious Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - a publication ambition achieved.

read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/…

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1/2 I'm thrilled to share that with the ASIL Interest Group on Global Health Law we have decided to launch an annual student writing competition. And I'm even more excited to be joined in this initiative by Dr Alexandra Phelan and other wonderful colleagues.

🚨New Paper🚨
Last year Dr. Claire Standley Ellen Carlin and I worked with Dan Donachie World Organisation for Animal Health considering how gender interacts with animal health emergencies and how World Organisation for Animal Health can integrate gender into their activities
Our findings out here Frontiers - Veterinary Science :
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

you do not get to work in or make a career in ethics of medicine / healthcare while staying silent n loyal to unjust governments.

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‼️THIS is what white privilege in UK NHS healthcare looks like.

Meanwhile, Black & Global Majority doctors face systemic racism that targets with formal disciplinaries, MHPS hearings, GMC referrals & removal from register PLUS trauma for issues resolvable locally.

#BeAntiRacist

🚀 Special Announcement. I have been appointed chairperson of the Interplanetary Constitutional Consortium. Full details below.

📕Mark your calendar! On May 16th, Allegra will host a conversation on Sally Merry's work bringing together leading human rights scholars on the occasion of the release of 'The Complexity of Human Rights' (Brill Law) edited by Philip Alston. Link here 👇
allegralaboratory.net/the-complexity…

We are holding CHLSP
Birmingham Law Care, Health and Human Flourishing Theme Workshop on 'Health & Care Law- Addressing Health and Care Inequalities' on 13th June- see call for papers- hope you can join us! birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/call…….

Great opinion piece by the Chair of the Council, Mariana Mazzucato, on the urgent need for a strong pandemic accord, which World Health Organization (WHO) Member States are currently negotiating.
tedros Dr Ritu Sadana Gregory Hartl Gabby Stern Paul
project-syndicate.org/commentary/pan…

essex.ac.uk/scholarships/s… Fantastic funded interdisciplinary PhD opportunities University of Essex . One position available to study with me and Nicholas on 'Human rights in postgrowth proposals and policies'. 👇👇👇

This is such a big week for PLS! In addition to our event at Yale Law School organized by The LPE Project, this week is also the first ever symposium on PLS organized by Virginia Law Review!

A brief 🧵about all of the incredible speakers!

You can register here:
virginialawreview.org/symposia/virgi…

These PhD studentship vacancies (on social rights and procedural justice respectively) include SGSSS Economic and Social Research Council stipends & fees. No Masters? No prob, includes your Masters fees & stipend. UK & International students eligible. Deadline 19 April.