Introductory description

Global Health Law is a recognised field of academic interest spanning many underlying issues of law in context that we deal with in other courses, such as development, gender, race, postcolonialism, human rights, intellectual property, migration, climate justice, international and humanitarian law.

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Module aims

Outline syllabus

This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.

Introduction
Actors and Structure in Global Health Law
Making Global Health Law
Case study: Communicable Diseases
Case Study: Non-communicable Diseases
Case Study: Measuring Global Health
Case Study: Technologies in Global Health Law
Case Study: Health Emergencies

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• To understand the historical, postcolonial and racial context within which global health law is constructed.
• To understand ethical and moral principles informing GHL, such as harm, equity, contagion, etc.
• To understand the nature and limits of GHL.
• To understand the actors, institutions and structures of GHL and their impact on international law.
• To critique global health law on the grounds of race, gender, over-medicalisation, intergenerational justice, etc.

Indicative reading list

Proposed Films

1. Lange Bangs (2010). The Lazarus Effect, [Documentary]. USA: HBO.
2. Andrew Head, James Oliver, ‘Where has our Aids Money gone?’(2013)[Documentary] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03l4xnq UK:BBC ,Panorama
3. David Darg,(2015)Body Team 12 [Documentary], USA: Vulcan Productions
4. Ben Summers, (2016) Dengue the hunt for a vaccine [Documentary] USA: The Orchard / Su Rynard,(2017) Mosquito [Documentary] How mosquitoes spread deadly diseases worldwide and what is being done to stop them. USA: Yap Films
5. Christof Putzel (201) Sex Lies and Cigarettes [Documentary] USA: Vanguard Films.

Other sources
Main text

1. Lawrence Gostin, (2014) Global Health Law Harvard University Press
   Other texts

2. Angelina Fisher, ‘Immunization Coverage Indicators: Technology of Public Health Governance,’ Governance by Indictors, Global Power through Quantification and Rankings eds Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury, and Sally Engle Merry

3. David McCoy et al, Methodological and Policy Limitations of Quantifying the Saving of Lives: A Case Study of the Global Fund's Approach,’ (2013) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001522

4. Sharifah Sekalala, (2018) ‘Soft Law and Global Health Problems: Lessons from HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, CUP.

5. Bilchitz David (2013)Corporations and Fundamental Rights: What is the nature of their obligations if any: Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics 1053- 1076

6. Harrington, John (2014) ‘Access to essential medicines in Kenya, Intellectual Property, Anticounterfeiting and the right to health’ in Freedman M, Hawkes S, Bennett B, ‘ Law and Global Health, ‘ Current Legal Issues Vol 16 OUP 94 -118.

7. Nunes Jao, (2016) ‘Ebola and the production of neglect in global health, ‘ 43 TWQ 542-556

8. Simon Rushton, ‘Framing AIDS: Securitization, Development-ization, Rights-ization,’ https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/departmental/interpol/chair/Rushton-Framing-AIDS-article.pdf

9. Susan K. Sell, TRIPs Was Never Enough: Vertical Forum Shifting, FTAS, ACTA, and TPP, 18 J. Intell. Prop. L. 447 (2011)

10. Roache, Sarah A, and Lawrence O Gostin. “Tapping the Power of Soda Taxes: A Call for Multidisciplinary Research and Broad-Based Advocacy Coalitions – A Response to Recent Commentaries.” International Journal of Health Policy and Management (in press) (2018). http://www.ijhpm.com/article_3484_0.html.

11. Roache, Sarah A, Charles Platkin, Lawrence O Gostin, and Cara Kaplan. “Big Food and Soda Versus Public Health: Industry Litigation Against Local Government Regulations to Promote Healthy Diets.” Fordham Urban Law Journal (in press), no. 45: 1051 (2018). https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol45/iss4/4/.

12. Rumbold, Benedict, Rachel Baker, Octavio Ferraz, Sarah Hawkes, Carleigh Krubiner, Peter Littlejohns, Ole F. Norheim, et al. “Universal Health Coverage, Priority Setting, and the Human Right to Health.” The Lancet, April 26, 2017.

13. Gostin, Lawrence O, H Abou-Taleb, Sarah A Roache, and Ala Alwan. “Legal Priorities for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases: Innovations from WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean.” Public Health 144 (2016): 4–12. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003335061630381X.

14. Grove NJ Zwi AB Our health and theirs: forced migration, othering, and public health, Soc Sci Med. 2006; 62: 1931-1942

15. Kelley Lee, ‘The World Health Organisation,’ 2008 Routlege Publishers

16. Fredrick M Abott, The WTO medicines decision: World pharmaceutical trade and the protection of public health, American Journal of International Law 2005,99 (2), 317-358

17. Belinda Bennett Terry Carney, ‘Public Health Emergencies of International Concern: Global, Regional, and Local Responses to Risk, ‘Medical Law Review, Volume 25, Issue 2, 1 May 2017, Pages 223–239,

18. Benjamin Mason Meier Kara Tureski Emily Bockh Derek Carr Ana Ayala Anna Roberts Lindsay Cloud Nicolas Wilhelm Scott Burris, ‘Examining National Public Health Law to Realize the Global Health Security Agenda,’ Medical Law Review, Volume 25, Issue 2, 1 May 2017, Pages 240–269.

Subject specific skills

No subject specific skills defined for this module.

Transferable skills

No transferable skills defined for this module.