Submissions from 2024
The World Health Organization was born as a normative agency: Seventy-five years of global health law under WHO governance, Lawrence O. Gostin, Benjamin Mason Meier, Safura Abdool Karim, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Gian Luca Burci, Danwood Chirwa, Alexandra Finch, Eric A. Friedman, Roojin Habibi, Sam F. Halabi, Tsung-Ling Lee, Brigit Toebes, and Pedro Villarreal
Financing Reforms to Meet a Pivotal Moment in Global Health, Kevin A. Klock, Alexandra Finch, and Lawrence O. Gostin
Submissions from 2023
Intellectual Property and the Politics of Public Good in COVID-19: Framing Law, Institutions, and Ideas during TRIPS Waiver Negotiations at the WTO, Sara E. Fischer, Lucia Vitale, Akinyi Lisa Agutu, and Matthew M. Kavanagh
Intellectual Property and the Politics of Public Good in COVID-19: Framing Law, Institutions, and Ideas during TRIPS Waiver Negotiations at the WTO, Sara E. Fischer, Lucia Vitale, Akinyi Lisa Agutu, and Matthew M. Kavanagh
The Global Health and Care Worker Compact: Evidence Base and Policy Considerations, Eric A. Friedman, Robert Bickford, Charles Bjork, James Campbell, Giorgio Cometto, Alexandra Finch, Catherine Kane, Sarah A. Wetter, and Lawrence O. Gostin
The WHO’s 75th anniversary: WHO at a pivotal moment in history, Lawrence O. Gostin, Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa, Helen Clark, Roojin Habibi, Björn Kümmel, Jemilah Mahmood, Benjamin Mason Meier, Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho, K. Srinath Reddy, Attiya Waris, and Miriam Were
The Global Health Architecture: Governance and International Institutions to Advance Population Health Worldwide, Lawrence O. Gostin, Eric A. Friedman, and Alexandra Finch
The Origins of Covid-19 — Why It Matters (and Why It Doesn’t), Lawrence O. Gostin and Gigi K. Gronvall
Making the World Safer and Fairer in Pandemics, Lawrence O. Gostin, Kevin A. Klock, and Alexandra Finch
Advancing Equity In The Pandemic Treaty, Lawrence O. Gostin, Kevin A. Klock, Katherine Ginsbach, Sam F. Halabi, Taylor Hall-Debnam, Janelle Lewis, Vanessa S. Perlman, and Katie Robinson
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Partnerships of Equitable Vaccine Access, Sam F. Halabi, Lawrence O. Gostin, Kashish Aneja, Francesca Nardi, Katie Gottschalk, and John T. Monahan
Vaccine Politics: Law and Inequality in the Pandemic Response to COVID-19, Matthew M. Kavanagh and Renu Singh
A critical juncture for human rights in global health: Strengthening human rights through global health law reforms, Benjamin Mason Meier, Luciano Bottini Filho, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Roojin Habibi, Sharifah Sekalala, and Lawrence O. Gostin
Roe v Wade’s 50th Anniversary: New Legal Frontiers for Safeguarding Reproductive Freedoms, Rebecca Reingold and Lawrence O. Gostin
Submissions from 2022
The End of Roe v Wade and New Legal Frontiers on the Constitutional Right to Abortion, I. Glenn Cohen, Melissa Murray, and Lawrence O. Gostin
Supreme Court Ruling on the Texas Abortion Law: Beginning to Unravel Roe v Wade, I. Glenn Cohen, Rebecca Reingold, and Lawrence O. Gostin
At Long Last, WHO Member States Agree to Fix Its Financing Problem, Alexandra Finch, Kevin A. Klock, Eric A. Friedman, and Lawrence O. Gostin
A New Architecture for Global Health Emergency Preparedness and Response—The Imperative of Equity, Lawrence O. Gostin
Life After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Lawrence O. Gostin
The Federal Global Migration and Quarantine Network: A Report From the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Lawrence O. Gostin, Georges C. Benjamin, and Tequam Worku
Financing the future of WHO, Lawrence O. Gostin, Kevin A. Klock, Helen Clark, Fatimatou Zahra Diop, Dayanath Jayasuriya, Jemilah Mahmood, and Attiya Waris
What Nations Owe Each Other Before the Next Pandemic, Lawrence O. Gostin, Kevin A. Klock, Sam F. Halabi, Katie Gottschalk, Katherine Ginsbach, and Kashish Aneja
The US Supreme Court’s Rulings on Large Business and Health Care Worker Vaccine Mandates: Ramifications for the COVID-19 Response and the Future of Federal Public Health Protection, Lawrence O. Gostin, Wendy E. Parmet, and Sara Rosenbaum
Risk Tradeoffs and Equitable Decision-Making in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Lawrence O. Gostin and Sarah A. Wetter
The First 2 Years of COVID-19: Lessons to Improve Preparedness for the Next Pandemic, Jennifer B. Nuzzo and Lawrence O. Gostin
Submissions from 2021
The Supreme Court, the Texas Abortion Law (SB8), and the Beginning of the End of Roe v Wade?, I. Glenn Cohen, Eli Y. Adashi, and Lawrence O. Gostin
The battle for COVID-19 vaccines highlights the need for a new global governance mechanism, Anna Mia Ekström, Camilla Berggren, Göran Tomson, Lawrence O. Gostin, Peter Friberg, and Ole Petter Ottersen
9 Steps to End COVID-19 and Prevent the Next Pandemic: Essential Outcomes From the World Health Assembly, Lawrence O. Gostin
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates—A Wider Freedom, Lawrence O. Gostin
The Coronavirus Pandemic 1 Year On—What Went Wrong?, Lawrence O. Gostin
Lockdowns, Quarantines, And Travel Restrictions, During COVID And Beyond: What’s The Law, And How Should We Decide?, Lawrence O. Gostin and Meryl Chertoff
Digital Health Passes in the Age of COVID-19: Are “Vaccine Passports” Lawful and Ethical?, Lawrence O. Gostin, I. Glenn Cohen, and Jana Shaw
How the Biden Administration Can Reinvigorate Global Health Security, Institutions, and Governance, Lawrence O. Gostin, Eric A. Friedman, and Sarah A. Wetter
An International Agreement on Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness, Lawrence O. Gostin, Sam F. Halabi, and Kevin A. Klock
No Future but a Shared Future, Lawrence O. Gostin, Kevin A. Klock, Sam F. Halabi, Katie Gottschalk, and Katherine Ginsbach
Developing an Innovative Pandemic Treaty to Advance Global Health Security, Lawrence O. Gostin, Benjamin Mason Meier, and Barbara Stocking
Twenty Years After the Anthrax Terrorist Attacks of 2001: Lessons Learned and Unlearned for the COVID-19 Response, Lawrence O. Gostin and Jennifer B. Nuzzo
Mandatory SARS-CoV-2 Vaccinations in K-12 Schools, Colleges/Universities, and Businesses, Lawrence O. Gostin, Jana Shaw, and Daniel A. Salmon
Law, criminalisation and HIV in the world: have countries that criminalise achieved more or less successful pandemic response?, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Schadrac C. Agbla, Marissa Joy, Kashish Aneja, Mara Pillinger, Alaina Case, Ngozi A. Erondu, Taavi Erkkola, and Ellie Graeden
Sharing Technology and Vaccine Doses to Address Global Vaccine Inequity and End the COVID-19 Pandemic, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Madhavi Sunder
Going Global, Acting Local: How an International Pandemic Convention Can Support Regional and Community Response, Kevin A. Klock, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Sam F. Halabi
Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccines: What Parents, Practitioners, and Policy Makers Need to Know, William J. Moss, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Jennifer B. Nuzzo
Executive Action to Expand Health Services in the Biden Administration, Timothy M. Westmoreland, Maxwell Gregg Bloche, and Lawrence O. Gostin
National focal points and implementation of the International Health Regulations, Kumanan Wilson, Sam F. Halabi, Helge Hollmeyer, Lawrence O. Gostin, David P. Fidler, Corinne Packer, Lindsay Wilson, and Ronald Labonté
Submissions from 2020
The Equitable Distribution of COVID-19 Therapeutics and Vaccines, Thomas J. Bollyky, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Margaret A. Hamburg
The Stellenbosch Consensus on the International Legal Obligation to Collaborate and Assist in Addressing Pandemics: Clarifying Article 44 of the International Health Regulations, Margherita Cinà, Steven J. Hoffman, Gian Luca Burci, Thana Cristina de Campos, Danwood Chirwa, Stéphanie Dagron, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Lisa Forman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Roojin Habibi, Benjamin Mason Meier, Stefania Negri, Gorik Ooms, Sharifah Sekalala, Allyn Taylor, and Alicia Ely Yamin
Global Health with Justice: Controlling the Floodgates of the Upstream Determinants of Health through Evidence-Based Law, John Coggon and Lawrence O. Gostin
Postscript: COVID-19 and the Legal Determinants of Health, John Coggon and Lawrence O. Gostin
Digital Smartphone Tracking for COVID-19: Public Health and Civil Liberties in Tension, I. Glenn Cohen, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Daniel J. Weitzner
When does a major outbreak become a Public Health Emergency of International Concern?, David N. Durrheim, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Keymanthri Moodley
COVID-19 Reveals Urgent Need to Strengthen the World Health Organization, Lawrence O. Gostin
Science, Leadership, and Public Trust in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Lawrence O. Gostin
The Great Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020—7 Critical Lessons, Lawrence O. Gostin
The Legal Determinants of Health: How Can We Achieve Universal Health Coverage and What Does it Mean?, Lawrence O. Gostin
Universal Masking in the United States: The Role of Mandates, Health Education, and the CDC, Lawrence O. Gostin, I. Glenn Cohen, and Jeffrey P. Koplan
The Shibboleth of Human Rights in Public Health, Lawrence O. Gostin, Tamira Daniely, Hanna E. Huffstetler, Caitlin R. Williams, and Benjamin Mason Meier
Health Inequalities, Lawrence O. Gostin and Eric A. Friedman
Imagining Global Health with Justice: Transformative Ideas for Health and Wellbeing While Leaving No One Behind, Lawrence O. Gostin and Eric A. Friedman
Responding to COVID‐19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and Ethically, Lawrence O. Gostin, Eric A. Friedman, and Sarah A. Wetter
Reforming and Strengthening the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Five Key Reforms to Renew the Agency’s Stature and Effectiveness, Lawrence O. Gostin and Sandro Galea
Has Global Health Law Risen to Meet the COVID-19 Challenge? Revisiting the International Health Regulations to Prepare for Future Threats, Lawrence O. Gostin, Roojin Habibi, and Benjamin Mason Meier
Legal Interventions to Address US Reductions in Life Expectancy, Lawrence O. Gostin, James G. Hodge, and Donna E. Levin
Presidential Powers and Response to COVID-19, Lawrence O. Gostin, James G. Hodge Jr., and Lindsay F. Wiley
Facilitating Access to a COVID-19 Vaccine through Global Health Law, Lawrence O. Gostin, Safura Abdool Karim, and Benjamin Mason Meier
Introduction: Global Health and Human Rights, Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier
Health Policy in the Supreme Court and a New Conservative Majority, Lawrence O. Gostin, Wendy E. Parmet, and Sara Rosenbaum
The Dual Epidemics of COVID-19 and Influenza: Vaccine Acceptance, Coverage, and Mandates, Lawrence O. Gostin and Daniel A. Salmon
Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines, Lawrence O. Gostin, Daniel A. Salmon, and Heidi J. Larson
A global health action agenda for the Biden administration, Lawrence O. Gostin, Donna E. Shalala, Margaret A. Hamburg, Barry R. Bloom, Jeffrey P. Koplan, Barbara K. Rimer, and Michelle A. Williams
Using COVID-19 to Strengthen the WHO: Promoting Health and Science Above Politics, Lawrence O. Gostin and Sarah A. Wetter
Governmental Public Health Powers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stay-at-home Orders, Business Closures, and Travel Restrictions, Lawrence O. Gostin and Lindsay F. Wiley
Regulating Medicines in a Globalized World With Increased Recognition and Reliance Among Regulators: A National Academies Report, Lawrence O. Gostin, Alastair J. Wood, and Patricia A. Cuff
The Stellenbosch Consensus on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks: Clarifying Article 43 of the International Health Regulations, Roojin Habibi, Steven J. Hoffman, Gian Luca Burci, Thana Cristina de Campos, Danwood Chirwa, Margherita Cinà, Stéphanie Dagron, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Lisa Forman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Benjamin Mason Meier, Stefania Negri, Gorik Ooms, Sharifah Sekalala, Allyn Taylor, and Alicia Ely Yamin
The Lancet–O’Neill Institute/Georgetown University Commission on Global Health and Law: The Power of Law to Advance the Right to Health, Jenny Kaldor, Lawrence O. Gostin, John T. Monahan, and Katie Gottschalk
Access to lifesaving medical resources for African countries: COVID-19 testing and response, ethics, and politics, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Ngozi A. Erondu, Oyewale Tomori, Victor J. Dzau, Emelda A. Okiro, Allan Maleche, Ifeyinwa C. Aniebo, Umunya Rugege, Charles B. Holmes, and Lawrence O. Gostin
Tuberculosis, human rights, and law reform: Addressing the lack of progress in the global tuberculosis response, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Lawrence O. Gostin, and John Stephens
How to Keep the United States in the WHO: Immediate Withdrawal Would Be a Global Health and a Legal Disaster, Harold Hongju Koh and Lawrence O. Gostin
A Global Survey of Potential Acceptance of a COVID-19 Vaccine, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Scott C. Ratzan, Adam Palayew, Lawrence O. Gostin, Heidi J. Larson, Kenneth Rabin, Spencer Kimball, and Ayman El-Mohandes
The World Health Organization in Global Health Law, Benjamin Mason Meier, Allyn Taylor, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Roojin Habibi, Sharifah Sekalala, and Lawrence O. Gostin
An Analysis of International Health Regulations Emergency Committees and Public Health Emergency of International Concern Designations, Lucia Mullen, Christina Potter, Lawrence O. Gostin, Anita Cicero, and Jennifer B. Nuzzo
How Well Does Societal Mobility Restriction Help Control the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence from Real-Time Evaluation, Juhwan Oh, Hwa-Young Lee, Khuong Quynh Long, Jeffrey F. Markuns, Chris Bullen, Osvaldo Enrique Artaza Barrios, Seung-sik Hwang, Young Sahng Seo, Judith McCool, S. Patrick Kachur, Chang-Chung Chan, Soonman Kwon, Naoki Kondo, Hoang Van Minh, J. Robin Moon, Mikael Rostila, Ole F. Norheim, Myoungsoon You, Mellissa Withers, Mu Lil, Eun-Jeung Lee, Caroline Benski, Soo Kyung Park, Eun-Woo Nam, Katie Gottschalk, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Jong-Koo Lee, Martin McKee, S. V. Subramanian, and Lawrence O. Gostin
The Value Proposition of the Global Health Security Index, Sanjana J. Ravi, Kelsey Lane Warmbrod, Lucia Mullen, Diane Meyer, Elizabeth Cameron, Jessica Bell, Priya Bapat, Michael Paterra, Catherine Machalaba, Indira Nath, Lawrence O. Gostin, Wilmot James, Dylan George, Simo Nikkari, Ernesto Gozzer, Oyewale Tomori, Issa Makumbi, and Jennifer B. Nuzzo
Is It Lawful and Ethical to Prioritize Racial Minorities for COVID-19 Vaccines?, Harald Schmidt, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Michelle A. Williams
Rationing Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccines: Allocating to States Proportionate to Population May Undermine Commitments to Mitigating Health Disparities, Harald Schmidt, Parag A. Pathak, Michelle A. Williams, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Ünver, and Lawrence O. Gostin
Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines: An Analysis of the Initial Allocation Plans of CDC's Jurisdictions with Implications for Disparate Impact Monitoring, Harald Schmidt, Rebecca Weintraub, Michelle A. Williams, Alison Buttenheim, Emily Sadecki, Helen Wu, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Angela A. Shen
Covid-19 Crisis Triage — Optimizing Health Outcomes and Disability Rights, Mildred Z. Solomon, Matthew K. Wynia, and Lawrence O. Gostin
The International Health Regulations (2005), the threat of populism and the COVID-19 pandemic, Kumanan Wilson, Sam F. Halabi, and Lawrence O. Gostin
Submissions from 2019
WHO Takes Action to Promote the Health of Refugees and Migrants, Lawrence O. Gostin, Ibrahim Abubakar, Ranieri Guerra, Sabina F. Rashid, Eric A. Friedman, and Zsuzsanna Jakab
Wealthy Countries Should Share Vaccine Doses Before It Is Too Late: The Greater Good Depends on Ending the Pandemic Everywhere, Lawrence O. Gostin, Eric A. Friedman, and Suerie Moon
The Legal Determinants of Health: Harnessing the Power of Law for Global Health and Sustainable Development, Lawrence O. Gostin, John T. Monahan, Jenny Kaldor, Mary DeBartolo, Eric A. Friedman, Katie Gottschalk, Susan C. Kim, Ala Alwan, Agnes Binagwaho, Gian Luca Burci, Luisa Cabal, Katherine DeLand, Timothy Grant Evans, Eric Goosby, Sara Hossain, Howard Koh, Gorik Ooms, Mirta Roses Periago, Rodrigo Uprimny, and Alicia E. Yamin
Submissions from 2018
Requiring Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination for School Entry, Michelle J. Bayefsky and Lawrence O. Gostin
A Beautiful Life in a Vibrant Yet Vulnerable City, Lawrence O. Gostin
China’s “New” Silk Road, Lawrence O. Gostin
Language, Science, and Politics: The Politicization of Public Health, Lawrence O. Gostin
New Ebola Outbreak in Africa Is a Major Test for the WHO, Lawrence O. Gostin
Public Health Emergency Preparedness: Globalizing Risk, Localizing Threats, Lawrence O. Gostin
Tackling Obesity and Disease: The Culprit Is Sugar; the Response Is Legal Regulation, Lawrence O. Gostin
Health Data and Privacy in the Digital Era, Lawrence O. Gostin, Sam F. Halabi, and Kumanan Wilson
Substantial Shifts in Supreme Court Health Law Jurisprudence, Lawrence O. Gostin and James G. Hodge
Enforcing Federal Drug Laws in States Where Medical Marijuana Is Lawful, Lawrence O. Gostin, James G. Hodge, and Sarah A. Wetter