Annual lecture in Health and Law
For the Second Annual Lecture in Health and Law, the RGHL is delighted to host Professor Lawrence Gostin, who is the Linda D. and Timothy O鈥橬eill Chair of Global Health Law at Georgetown University.
His paper is entitled: Meeting the Basic Survival Needs of the World鈥檚 Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health. It should draw on a broad cross-section of substantive areas including: health law, international human rights law, law and poverty, international trade, humanitarian law and intellectual property.
About the speaker
Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally acclaimed scholar, is the Linda D.聽and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of聽Global Health law at the聽Georgetown University Law聽Center, where he directs the O'Neill Institute for National and global Health Law.
He served as聽Associate Dean for Research at Georgetown Law聽until 2008. he is also Professor of Public Health at the聽Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities - a聽Collaborating Center聽of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is Visiting Professor of Public Health (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and Research Fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at Oxford University.聽He is the Health Law and Ethics Editor, Contributing Writer, and Columnist for the Journal of the聽American Medical Association.
In 2007, the Director General of the World Health Organization appointed Prof. Gostin to the International Health Regulations (IHR) Roster of Experts and the Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health.
He has led major law reform initiatives in the U.S., including the drafting of the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) to combat bioterrorism and the "Turning Point" Model State Public Health Act. He is also leading a drafting team on developing a Model Public Health Law for the World Health Organization. He is currently also drafting a "Framework Convention on Human Services" for the World Bank-a multilateral treaty on the health care professional capacity in poor and middle income countries.
This Annual Lecture was sponsored in part by the 91丝瓜视频 Beatty Memorial Lecture Series.
