Global Health Governance &
the Contentious Politics of
Human Rights
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil
NSF-IGERT International Development & Globalization Fellow
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
In an era of globalization that calls for
international collaboration across borders, we
need to look more carefully, and creatively, at how
we can use the instruments of international law.
- Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General
 American Public Health
Association
Health Law Section—
Editor, Health Law News
Health & Human Rights
Publications
International Human Rights
Committee
New York Academy of
Medicine—Associate
Fellow
O’Neill Institute for
National and Global Health
Law—Scholar
Earth Institute Research
HIV Law Project—Young
Professionals Advisory
Board
Geneva, Switzerland
New York State Bar
Association, Public Health
Law Committee
Human Rights and
Tobacco Control Network
Interviews and Archival Research
in the United Nations and World
Health Organization
American Society of Law,
Medicine and Ethics
Public Health Law
Association
Meier BM. The World Health Organization, human rights, and the failure
to achieve Health for All: Mainstreaming the right to health for public
health advancement. In Harrington J, Stuttaford M (eds.) Global Health
and Human Rights. In press.
Fox AM, Meier BM. Health as freedom: Addressing social determinants
of global health inequities through the human right to development.
Bioethics. 2009;23:112-122.
Dempsey RA, Meier BM. Going negative: How reproductive rights
discourse has been altered from a positive to a negative rights framework
in support of ‘women's rights.’ In Murthy P, Smith CL (eds.) Women’s
Global Health and Human Rights. 2009.
Meier BM, Fox AM. Development as health: Employing the collective
right to development to achieve the goals of the individual right to
health. Human Rights Quarterly. 2008;30:259-355.
Conklin A, Meier BM. A 'vector of rights' approach to public health:
Towards an intersectional human rights framework for considering the
prevention and treatment of harms to girl child soldiers. Australian
Journal of Human Rights. 2008;13:65-98.
WHO
Meier BM. Advancing health rights in a globalized world: Responding to
globalization through a collective human right to public health. Journal of
Law, Medicine & Ethics. 2007;35:545-555.
Meier BM. Employing health rights for global justice: The promise of
public health in response to the insalubrious ramifications of
globalization. Cornell International Law Journal. 2006;39:711-778.
UN
Meier BM, Shelley D. The fourth pillar of the Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control: Harm reduction and the international human right to
health. Public Health Reports. 2006;121:494-500.
Meier BM, Mori LM. The highest attainable standard: Advancing a
collective human right to public health. Columbia Human Rights Law
Review. 2005;36:101-147.
Meier BM. Breathing life into the Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control: Smoking cessation and the right to health. Yale Journal of Health
Policy, Law & Ethics. 2005;5:137-192.
Dissertation
The Highest Attainable Standard:
WHO, Global Health Governance, and the
Contentious Politics of Human Rights
Meier BM. International criminal prosecution of physicians: A critique of
Professors Annas
and Grodin’s proposed International Medical Tribunal. American Journal
of Law and Medicine. 2004;30:419-452.
Meier BM. International protection of persons undergoing medical
experimentation: Protecting the right of informed consent. Berkeley
Journal of International Law. 2003;20:514-554.
All publications and presentations can be found at
http://www.columbia.edu/~bmm2102/