3115.0 Where are Human Rights in the Global Health Agenda?

Monday, October 29, 2012: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Focused on social determinants of health, non-communicable diseases, and the post-2015 agenda, this panel seeks to review how human rights discourses have slipped from the global health agenda and analyze how human rights could better frame global health efforts.
Session Objectives: Describe the role of human rights in framing global health policy. Identify ways in which human rights have slipped from the global health agenda. Analyze the impact of human rights in improving the global health response.
Organizers:
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD and Vina HuLamm
Moderator:
Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH

10:30am
Human Rights in the Post-2015 Agenda
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD
     
10:50am
Missed Opportunities: The Human Rights Gap in the CSDH Report
Audrey Chapman, PhD, MDiv, STM
     
11:10am
What could human rights contribute to a global agenda for health equity?
Paula Braveman, MD, MPH
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: APHA-International Human Rights Committee
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus, APHA-World Federation of Public Health Associations, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

See more of: APHA-International Human Rights Committee
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