Google.org Invests in Identifying Public Health Outbreaks

As reported in America.gov, and announced on October 21, Google.org is making an initial grant of $14.8 million for its “Prevent and Predict” program.   The money is going to six partnerships in Africa and Southeast Asia and is aimed at helping nations and international organizations for both animal and human health to identify possible public health [...]

Scholar’s Corner: Recent Scholarly Works in Global Health Law

Understanding the Conflicts between the Trips Agreement and Human Right to Health
 
9 (6) Journal of World Investment and Trade (2008)

Prabhash Ranjan
National University of Juridical Sciences

November 07, 2008

 
Abstract:     
This paper analyses the relationship between the agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the [...]

News Brief: Recent Events in Global Health Law

Health advocates argue that cigars escape taxation that makes cigarette smoking less desirable.  Federal regulations define cigars in a way that allows tobacco companies to escape the steep taxes that have been levied against cigarettes in recent years.  Washington Post
A cholera outbreak threatens tens of thousands of people who have fled fighting between rebel forces [...]

Scholar’s Corner: Recent Scholarly Works in Global Health Law

Whose Body is it Anyway? An Updated Model of Health Care Decision-Making Rights for Adolescents

 
Kimberly Mutcherson
Rutgers School of Law-Camden
June 1, 2005
 

Abstract:     

This article queries whether the law inappropriately deprives adolescents of the right to participate in and potentially direct their own healthcare. I argue that the broad withholding of healthcare decision-making rights from adolescents [...]