Human rights are essential to global health, yet rising threats in an increasingly divided world are challenging the progressive evolution of health-related human rights. It is necessary to empower a new generation of scholars, advocates, and practitioners to sustain the global commitment to universal rights in public health. Looking to the next generation to face the struggles ahead, this book provides a detailed understanding of the evolving relationship between global health and human rights, laying a human rights foundation for the advancement of transformative health policies, programs, and practices.
International human rights law has been repeatedly shown to advance health and wellbeing - empowering communities and fostering accountability for realizing the highest attainable standard of health. This book provides a compelling examination of international human rights as essential for advancing public health. It demonstrates how human rights strengthens human autonomy and dignity, while placing clear responsibilities on government to safeguard the public's health and safety.
Bringing together leading academics in the field of health and human rights, this volume: (1) explains the norms and principles that define the field, (2) examines the methods and tools for implementing human rights to promote health, (3) applies essential human rights to leading public health threats, and (4) analyzes rising human rights challenges in a rapidly globalizing world. This foundational text shows why interdisciplinary scholarship and action are essential for health-related human rights, placing human rights at the center of public health and securing a future of global health with justice.

Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor (Georgetown University's highest academic rank), Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, and serves on expert WHO advisory committees. He is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences, Council on Foreign Relations, and Hastings Center.
Benjamin Mason Meier is an Associate Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Scholar at Georgetown Law School's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and a consultant to international organizations, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations. Dr. Meier's interdisciplinary research-at the intersection of global health, international law, and public policy-examines the development, evolution, and application of human rights in global health.

Foreword: Human Rights are Central to Global Health
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Introduction: Global Health & Human Rights
Lawrence O. Gostin & Benjamin Mason Meier
I. The Human Rights Movement: International Norms and Principles
Chapter 1. The Birth and Development of Human Rights for Health
Benjamin Mason Meier, Thérèse Murphy & Lawrence O. Gostin
Chapter 2. Global Health Law: Legal Foundations for Social Justice in Public Health
Lawrence O. Gostin, Matiangai V. S. Sirleaf & Eric A. Friedman
Chapter 3. The Right to Health and Health-Related Human Rights
John Tobin & Damon Barrett
Chapter 4. The Rights-Based Approach to Health
Flavia Bustreo & Curtis F.J. Doebbler
II. Bringing Rights Home: Tools for Human Rights Implementation and Accountability
Chapter 5. Translating International Law into Domestic Law, Policy, and Practice
Gillian MacNaughton & Angela Duger
Chapter 6. Human Rights Advocacy in Global Health
Joseph J. Amon & Eric A. Friedman
Chapter 7. Monitoring and Review to Assess Human Rights Implementation
Benjamin Mason Meier, Hanna Huffstetler & Judith Bueno de Mesquita
Chapter 8. Justiciability of Human Rights for Health
Colleen M. Flood & Bryan Thomas
Chapter 9. Advancing Human Rights through Global Health Governance
Benjamin Mason Meier, Margherita Marianna Cinà & Lawrence O. Gostin
III. Contemporary Applications: Healthy People, Healthy Populations
Chapter 10. Communicable Diseases, Health Security, and Human Rights: From AIDS to Ebola
Sharifah Sekalala & John Harrington
Chapter 11. Human Rights and Non-Communicable Diseases: Controlling Tobacco and Promoting Healthy Diets
Brigit Toebes & David Patterson
Chapter 12. The Emergence of "New" Health- Related Human Rights: Recognizing the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
Benjamin Mason Meier & Inga T. Winkler
Chapter 13. Chronic Illness: Disability and Mental Health
Oliver Lewis & Soumitra Pathare
Chapter 14. Equity in Health: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Terry McGovern & Aziza Ahmed
IV. New Challenges: Human Rights to Advance Public Health in a Globalizing Era
Chapter 15. Health and Human Rights through Global Development: The Right to Development, Rights-Based Approach to Development, and Sustainable Development Goals
Stephen P. Marks & Alice Han
Chapter 16. International Trade, Public Health, and Human Rights
Chuang-Feng Wu & Chien-Huei Wu
Chapter 17. Health & Human Rights in Conflict and Emergencies
Dabney P. Evans, Edward L. Queen & Lara S. Martin
Chapter 18. Human Subjects in Globalized Health Research
Andrés Constantin & Roberto Andorno
Chapter 19. The Environment, a Changing Climate, and Planetary Health
Alexandra Phelan
Chapter 20. Global Health & Human Rights in the Age of Populism
Lawrence O. Gostin, Andrés Constantin & Benjamin Mason Meier
Conclusion