In their commentary, Haik Nikogosian and Ilona Kickbusch argue for the necessity of new binding international legal instruments for health to address complex health determinants and offer a cogent analysis of the implications of such treaties for future global health governance. Yet in doing so they pay no attention to the existing instrumentarium of international legally binding treaties relev...

Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford, CA, USA (RG); Global Health Corps, New York, NY, USA (BPB, EM); The Aspen Institute, Impact Careers Initiative, Aspen, CO, USA (JD); Partners In Health, Cambridge, MA, USA (CvdhH, PEF); Harvard Medical School, Global Health Delivery Partnership, Boston, MA, USA (CvdhH); ...

(1)Research Fellow, Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (2)National Practice Group Leader, Medical Law, Slater & Gordon; Adjunct Fellow, School of Law, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia (3)School of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (4)Centre for Health Governance Law and Ethics, Sydney Law School, The...

Shiffman recently summarized lessons for network effectiveness from an impressive collection of case-studies. However, in common with most global health governance analysis in recent years, Shiffman underplays the important role of states in these global networks. As the body which decides and signs international agreements, often provides the resourcing, and is responsible for implementing ini...

Amir Attaran Canada research chair in law, population health, and global development policy , Donna Barry policy and advocacy director , Shamnad Basheer professor in intellectual property law, Roger Bate resident scholar, David Benton chief executive officer, James Chauvin president, Laurie Garrett senior fellow for global health , Ilona Kickbusch director, global health programme , Jillian Cla...

Historically, international law has played a key role in global communicable disease surveillance. Throughout the nineteenth century, international law played a dominant role in harmonizing the inconsistent national quarantine regulations of European nation-states; facilitating the exchange of epidemiological information on infectious diseases; establishing international health organizations; a...

Global health inequities cause nearly 20 million deaths annually, mostly among the world's poor. Yet international law currently does little to reduce the massive inequalities that underlie these deaths. This Article offers the first systematic account of the goals and justifications, normative foundations, and potential construction of a proposed new global health treaty, a Framework Conventio...

BACKGROUND Global health institutions increasingly recognize that the right to health should guide the formulation of replacement goals for the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015. However, the right to health's contribution is undercut by the principle of progressive realization, which links provision of health services to available resources, permitting states to deny even basi...