Global Health Governance & the Contentious Politics of Human Rights

1. Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil NSF-IGERT International Development & Globalization Fellow Department of Sociomedical Sciences In an era of globalization that calls for international collaboration across borders, we need to look more carefully, and creatively, at how we can use the instruments of international law. - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General • American Public Health Association • Health Law Section—Editor, Health Law News • International Human Rights Committee • New York Academy of Medicine—Associate Fellow • O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law—Scholar • HIV Law Project—Young Professionals Advisory Board • New York State Bar Association, Public Health Law Committee • Human Rights and Tobacco Control Network • American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics • Public Health Law Association Global Health Governance & the Contentious Politics of Human Rights Health & Human Rights Publications Meier BM. The World Health Organization, human rights, and the failure to achieve Health for All: Mainstreaming the right to health for public health advancement. In Harrington J, Stuttaford M (eds.) Global Health and Human Rights. In press. Fox AM, Meier BM. Health as freedom: Addressing social determinants of global health inequities through the human right to development. Bioethics. 2009;23:112-122. Dempsey RA, Meier BM. Going negative: How reproductive rights discourse has been altered from a positive to a negative rights framework in support of ‘women's rights.’ In Murthy P, Smith CL (eds.) Women’s Global Health and Human Rights. 2009. Meier BM, Fox AM. Development as health: Employing the collective right to development to achieve the goals of the individual right to health. Human Rights Quarterly. 2008;30:259-355. Conklin A, Meier BM. A 'vector of rights' approach to public health: Towards an intersectional human rights framework for considering the prevention and treatment of harms to girl child soldiers. Australian Journal of Human Rights. 2008;13:65-98. Meier BM. Advancing health rights in a globalized world: Responding to globalization through a collective human right to public health. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 2007;35:545-555. Meier BM. Employing health rights for global justice: The promise of public health in response to the insalubrious ramifications of globalization. Cornell International Law Journal. 2006;39:711-778. Meier BM, Shelley D. The fourth pillar of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Harm reduction and the international human right to health. Public Health Reports. 2006;121:494-500. Meier BM, Mori LM. The highest attainable standard: Advancing a collective human right to public health. Columbia Human Rights Law Review. 2005;36:101-147. Meier BM. Breathing life into the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Smoking cessation and the right to health. Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics. 2005;5:137-192. Meier BM. International criminal prosecution of physicians: A critique of Professors Annas and Grodin’s proposed International Medical Tribunal. American Journal of Law and Medicine. 2004;30:419-452. Meier BM. International protection of persons undergoing medical experimentation: Protecting the right of informed consent. Berkeley Journal of International Law. 2003;20:514-554. Earth Institute Research Geneva, Switzerland Interviews and Archival Research in the United Nations and World Health Organization All publications and presentations can be found at http://www.columbia.edu/~bmm2102/ WHO UN Dissertation The Highest Attainable Standard: WHO, Global Health Governance, and the Contentious Politics of Human Rights