Lunch meeting on 5 April 2019
Lawrence Gostin will speak about the intersection of development, security and global health law and the need to take legal action in the current Ebola outbreak. Gostin’s seminal publications and track-record in the field of global health over the last decades have been of great importance to the development of global health law and policies. Constance Schultsz will act as a discussant and chair and bring in the medical perspective on the intersections of policy, science and the need to act in a highly unstable security situation.
The meeting is co-organised by the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance and the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) and the Center for Social Sciences and Global Health of the UvA Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Lawrence Gostin is Professor at Georgetown University and directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and is the Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law. He served as Associate Dean for Research at Georgetown Law from 2004 to 2008. He is Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University and Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. Professor Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law, and he other holds prominent positions in the including the International Health Regulations (IHR) Roster of Experts and the Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health. He served on the Director-General’s Advisory Committee on Reforming the World Health Organization, as well as numerous WHO expert advisory committees, including on the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, smallpox, and genomic sequencing data. He served on the WHO/Global Fund Blue Ribbon Expert Panel: The Equitable Access Initiative to develop a global health equity framework. He also co-chairs the Lancet Commission on Global Health Law. Professor Gostin served on two global commissions to report on the lessons learned from the 2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic. He was senior advisor to the United Nations Secretary General’s post-Ebola Commission and served on the drafting team for the G-7 Summit in Tokyo 2016, focusing on global health security and Universal Health Coverage. Professor Gostin has led major law reform initiatives in the U.S., including drafting the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) to combat bioterrorism and the “Turning Point” Model State Public Health Act. He also spearheaded the World Health Organization and International Development Law Organization’s major report,Advancing the Right to Health: The Vital Role of Law (2017).
Constance Schultsz is an MD, Medical Microbiologist and Professor of Global Health, in particular for emerging infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance, at the Amsterdam UMC. She was trained as a medical microbiologist at the Amsterdam UMC-UvA where she also obtained her PhD in 1999. She worked as a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 1987–1989 and worked as a consultant microbiologist at the VU University Medical Centre (2000-2003). From 2003 until 2008 she headed the Microbiology department at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam, at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In 2008 she joined the Amsterdam UMC again but this time in the departments of Global Health and Medical Microbiology. She was appointed Deputy Head of the Department of Global Health in 2016 and at the same time became an executive board member of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD)
Dr. A. de Ruijter (Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance) &
Dr. D. de Vries (Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body)
AIGHD
AHTC, Tower C4,
Paasheuvelweg 25
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