The Human Rights Forum seeks to mainstream human rights across APHA’s Sections, SPIGs, and Caucuses, advancing human rights as a foundation for public health.

Human rights are now held up as a modern guide for public health, a vision that all public health scholars and practitioners shall uphold in their work.  Under this rights-based approach to health, public health practitioners have framed health disparities as “rights violations,” offering universal standards by which to frame government responsibilities and evaluate health outcomes.  These international human rights standards have been shown repeatedly to impact public health, restricting and emboldening government action to realize the highest attainable standard of health.  With human rights inextricably linked to the achievement of public health goals, a growing discipline has arisen in Health and Human Rights, examining the human right to health and interconnected rights to underlying determinants of health.

Abstracts in this domain should address issues that arise at the intersection of public health and human rights and should be designed to help attendees recognize and respond to human rights issues in the public health practice. Abstracts may address issues ranging from:

• A Rights-Based Approach to Drug Policy
  
• Accountability for Public Health Obligations under International Human Rights Law
  
• Human Rights Advancement through Public Health Governance
  
• Human Rights Research for Public Health Promotion
  
• Right to Health Advocacy in the United States
  
• Sexual and Reproductive Rights
  
• The Right to Health as a Basis for Justice
  
• The Role of Human Rights in Infectious Disease Prevention, Detection, and Response
  

Abstracts need not fit within one of these categories but must relate to human rights as a basis for public health. For more information please contact the program planner below.

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Program Planner Contact Information:

Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD
Deparment of Public Policy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
218 Abernethy Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone: 919-962-0542
bmeier@unc.edu