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Professor @UofT_dlsph, Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Global Health Equity, right to health scholar, equal opp foodie, 🇿🇦 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

Toronto, Ontario
Joined December 2008
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Registration is open for Health Promotion, Equity and Rights: The Ottawa Charter at 40 - Oct 20–21 @uOttawa Ft. GSL speakers: Roojin Habibi, Arne Ruckert, Steven Hoffman & Patrick Fafard. Learn more🔗 ottawahealthlaw.ca/conferenc…
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If you are in Toronto next week, please come to an exciting talk by Dr. Mulumba Moses on health equity. Coffee and sandwiches provided and registration through Eventbrite - eventbrite.ca/e/global-healt… Date and time: 8 September, 12:00-1:30pm Location: 78 Queen's Park, rm P115.
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If legal and political strategies to realize health-related rights pique your interest, you won't want to miss this upcoming talk by the wonderful Allan Maleche in Toronto on Monday 8 September. Register and circulate widely! eventbrite.ca/e/from-the-cli…
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FREE ACCESS: Click here to download and read the article by @lforman on ‘The evolving international law standards governing restrictions of economic, social, and cultural rights during public health emergencies’ doi.org/10.4337/jghl.2024.02…
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A few days to go before this exciting talk by @sharifasekalala at the UofT Faculty of Law next Monday. Please register and circulate!
If you are in Toronto on 9 September you will want to attend this exciting in-person lecture by the amazing Professor @sharifasekalala examining the human rights case for reparations in access to medicines! @UofT_dlsph @UofTLaw @GHLConsortium eventbrite.ca/e/creating-equ…
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If you are in Toronto on 9 September you will want to attend this exciting in-person lecture by the amazing Professor @sharifasekalala examining the human rights case for reparations in access to medicines! @UofT_dlsph @UofTLaw @GHLConsortium eventbrite.ca/e/creating-equ…
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Global health law will be at the forefront of Global Health Security 2024 in Sydney next month! Join us for a full day of discussions on the IHR & pandemic treaty state of play. 📅 June 17th from 9am to 5:30pm 🖊️ [email protected] to register (all welcome!)
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In @FilesGeneva, the @GHLConsortium (led by @lforman) examines #HumanRights limitations in #IHR reforms, proposing amendments to address: 1. medical countermeasures 2. core capacities 3. travel restrictions 4. vaccine certificates 5. social measures & 6. accountability.
Reforms to the International Health Regulations Must Advance Human Rights @WHO [GUEST ESSAY]; #IHR TRIPS Extension Decision for COVID-19 Tests & Treatments Junked at @wto Ministerial Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #70 [Treaty Talks] genevahealthfiles.substack.c…
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Thank you so much to the speakers, colleagues and students who joined us last Friday at the @uocommonlaw for a public symposium commemorating 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and @WHO! @FafardPatrick @jwnickerson @AkSafs @RoojinHabibi @Judith_Mesquita
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If you were unable to attend the launch of the new @OxUniPress book, 'Global Health Law and Policy: Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World,' the session is now available for viewing on our website 🌎🎥globalstrategylab.org/global…
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"If global health law was robust and adaptive, it should have allowed us during the COVID-19 pandemic to be united. Unfortunately, it wasn’t." The speakers dive into a discussion on how COVID-19 caused us to rethink #GlobalHealthLaw.
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The panel kicks-off by introducing the panelists: @shoffmania, Director of @gstrategylab @BenjaminMMeier, Professor of Global Health Policy at @UNCResearch, @lforman, Associate Professor at @UofT_dlsph, and @uche_ngwaba, Assistant Professor with @LincAlexLawTMU.
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Please consider joining our hybrid panel tomorrow from 12-1pm. A few in person and zoom spots remain for what should be a really great conversation about the future of global health law.
⏰There's still time left to register!⏰ Join @GHLConsortium, @gstrategylab, & @UofT_dlsph for the official launch of @OxUniPress textbook “Global Health Law & Policy: Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World.” 📆 Dec 11 | 12pm - 1pm Register here: bit.ly/46yFT1m
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A pleasure to be at this amazing event today, I highly encourage anyone who can to click in to watch #AdvancingHealthJustice
⏰Starting now! Join the livestream of Advancing Health Justice in a Turbulent World youtube.com/watch?v=3oa8b82H…
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Our final panel will be “Health and Human Rights in the Next 75: Forward-Looking Reflections on the Future of Health Rights ” with @lforman @chidi_oguamanam @Judith_Mesquita and Christian Courtis, chaired by @GranthamBarbara Register: ottawahealthlaw.ca/events/gl…
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⏰There's still time left to register!⏰ Join @GHLConsortium, @gstrategylab, & @UofT_dlsph for the official launch of @OxUniPress textbook “Global Health Law & Policy: Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World.” 📆 Dec 11 | 12pm - 1pm Register here: bit.ly/46yFT1m
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Join @GHLConsortium, @gstrategylab, & @UofT_dlsph for the official launch of @OxUniPress textbook “Global Health Law & Policy: Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World.”   📆 Dec 11|12pm - 1pm   Register here: bit.ly/46yFT1m
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📚The diverse student cohort could learn from great leaders in the field of global health law, and the attendees were impressed by the high teaching quality of the course🌍. The visit to the @WHO was among the highlights. Everyone would agree on that! #globalhealthlaw
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