The right to health both defines a “health in all policies” agenda and prohibits state cruelty. The UN rapporteurs on the right to health and torture will help us set a forward-looking health and human rights strategy.
Speakers
(George) David Annas
Deputy Director, Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program, State University of New York Upstate Medical University
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George J. Annas
Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
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George J. Annas is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, and a member of the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management at SPH. He is also a professor at the
Boston University Schools of Law and Medicine. He is author or editor of 20 books on health law and bioethics, including The
Rights of Patients (third edition, 2004),
Public Health Law (second edition, 2014),
American Bioethics (2005),
Worst Case Bioethics (2010), and
Genomic Messages (2015). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the co-founder of Global Lawyers & Physicians, an NGO dedicated to promoting health and human rights.
Sondra S. Crosby
Director, Immigrant and Refugee Health Program, Boston Medical Center; Associate Professor, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston University School of Medicine
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Sondra Crosby is an associate professor of medicine and public health at the
Boston University School of Medicine and
Public Health and is a faculty member at the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at BUSPH. Crosby is an expert in the field of torture documentation. She is co-founder and director of the Forensic Medical Evaluation Group at BU and serves as a medical consultant to Physicians for Human Rights. Crosby has evaluated the effects of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and displacement on Darfuri women in Chad; Syrian refugees living in Turkey and Jordan; and former detainees in US detention at Guantanamo Bay and other sites in Iraq and Afghanistan. She also served as a medical forensic expert for the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry, investigating allegations of torture. Crosby has consulted on the care of hunger strikers in detention in both state prisons and Guantanamo Bay, as well as overseas.
Michael Alan Grodin
Professor, Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
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Michael Alan Grodin is professor of health law, ethics & human rights at the
Boston University School Public Health, where he has received the two highest awards granted the faculty: the Career Research and Scholarship Award and the Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching. Grodin is also a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the
Boston University School of Medicine。
Sofia Gruskin
Director, Program on Global Health & Human Rights, USC Institute for Global Health
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Wendy Mariner
Professor, Health Law, Ethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
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Wendy Mariner is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at the Boston University School Public Health, professor of law at the
Boston University School of Law, professor at the
Boston University School of Mediciane, co-director of the JD/MPH joint degree program, and a member of the faculty of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at BUSPH. Mariner’s research focuses on laws governing health risks, including social and personal responsibility for risk creation, health insurance systems, implementation of the Affordable Care Act, ERISA, health information privacy, and population health policy. She has published more than 100 articles in the legal, medical, and health policy literature and co-authored two editions of the law school textbook
Public Health Law (Ken Wing, Wendy Mariner, George Annas & Dan Strouse, 2007) and
Public Health Law, Second Edition (with George J. Annas, 2014). She also serves as program chair of the Program in Health Law & Human Rights, a joint project with the Public Health Regulations Analysis Center of the National School of Public Health of the New University of Lisbon. Mariner has served on state, national, and international boards and commissions, including the Committee for the International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects. Her BU activities have included serving as co-director of regulatory knowledge and research ethics of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and she is currently a member of the Boston University Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion. With health law colleagues, she has submitted amicus curiae briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States in cases involving health law issues, including the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.
Juan E. Méndez
Special Rapporteur on Torture, United Nations
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Juan E. Méndez is a professor of human rights law in residence at the American University–Washington College of Law. He is the author (with Marjory Wentworth) of
Taking a Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights
Dainius Pūras
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, United Nations
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Brandon N. Reynolds
Regional Psychiatrist, Pre-Release and Legal Services, New York State Office of Mental Health; Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York Upstate Medical University
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Daniel Tarantola
Former Senior Policy Adviser to the Director General with a Specific Focus on Health and Human Rights