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Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management University of North Carolina Website |
Dr. Meier’s interdisciplinary research—at the intersection of global health, international law, and public policy—examines rights-based approaches to health. Working collaboratively across UNC’s Department of Public Policy and Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dr. Meier has written and presented extensively on the development, evolution, and application of human rights in global health.
As a contributor to the development of global health policy, Dr. Meier serves additionally as a Scholar at Georgetown Law School’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, as the past chair of the American Public Health Association’s Human Rights Forum, and as a consultant to international organizations, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations. Having just published a volume on Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World (Oxford University Press 2018), Dr. Meier is currently developing a new text on Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2020); coordinating special issues of Global Health Governance (Global Health Justice & Governance) and the Health & Human Rights Journal (Human Rights for Health across the United Nations); and finalizing a project on Assessing Foreign Public Health Legal Landscapes to Facilitate Achievement of U.S. Global Health Security Goals. In June 2017, he received the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, in November 2018, he received the Early Career Award for Excellence in Public Health Law from the American Public Health Association, and in March 2019, he received the Teaching Innovation Award from the Department of Health Policy & Management. Dr. Meier received his Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University, his J.D. and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Cornell Law School, and his B.A. in Biochemistry from Cornell University Recent publications and news articles: |
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Roojin Habibi is an international lawyer, consultant and research fellow specialized in global health law, governance and justice. She has worked as an advocate for the right to health of marginalized and left behind populations at the national and international level through civil society and intergovernmental organizations including the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Canadian Medical Association, the Namibian Legal Assistance Centre and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). She teaches Medicines Policy, Economics and Ethics at the University of Sydney.
Roojin’s research has been featured in, among others, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the Philippe Kirsch Institute Global Justice Journal, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Health Policy, and the Ottawa Law Review. She holds a law degree (J.D.) from the University of Ottawa, a specialization in transnational law from the University of Geneva, and a Master’s of Science in Global Health from McMaster University. She is pursuing her doctoral thesis on the sustainable and equitable governance of emerging and re-emerging pathogens with pandemic potential. Roojin speaks English, French and Farsi fluently. On her spare time, she practices open water diving and museum hopping. Follow her on twitter here. Recent publications and news articles: |
Gian Luca Burci, PhD
Adjunct Professor of International Law Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland |
Gian Luca Burci was named Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies of Geneva in 2012. He served in the Legal Office of the World Health Organization since 1998 and was its Legal Counsel from April 2005 until its retirement in February 2016.
Professor Burci previously served as Legal Officer at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna in 1998-1999 and in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the United Nations in New York for nearly a decade. At the Graduate Institute he teaches international health law within the framework of the joint LLM in Global Health Law and International Institutions Programme in partnership with Georgetown University, as well as a course on the law and practice of the United Nations. Among other professional achievements, he was closely involved in the negotiation and implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, the revision and implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005), WHO’s response to the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak and WHO reform. Prof. Burci holds a post graduate degree in law from the Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy. His areas of expertise are public international law, the law of international organizations as well as global health governance and law. Prof. Burci is the co-author of the leading English book on WHO, editor of the first research collection on global health law and author of numerous articles and book chapters. Recent publications and news articles:
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