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Mashup Score: 6The World Health Organization was born as a normative agency: Seventy-five years of global health law under WHO governance - 16 day(s) ago
The World Health Organization (WHO) was born as a normative agency and has looked to global health law to structure collective action to realize global health with justice. Framed by its constitutional authority to act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health, WHO has long been seen as the central actor in the development and implementation of global health law. However, WHO has faced challenges in advancing law to prevent disease and promote health over the past 75 years, with global health law constrained by new health actors, shifting normative frameworks, and soft law diplomacy. These challenges were exacerbated amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as states neglected international legal commitments in national health responses. Yet, global health law reforms are now underway to strengthen WHO governance, signaling a return to lawmaking for global health. Looking back on WHO’s 75th anniversary, this article examines the central importance of global health law unde
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Mashup Score: 7Developing an Innovative Pandemic Treaty to Advance Global Health Security by Lawrence O. Gostin, Benjamin Mason Meier, Barbara Stocking :: SSRN - 3 year(s) ago
The World Health Assembly will be holding an unprecedented second meeting this year in November, with only a single item on the agenda – the development of a ne
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New in @PLOSGPH, the @GHLConsortium reviews the actors, norms & diplomacy that have shaped #GlobalHealthLaw under @WHO governance “The World Health Organization Was Born as a Normative Agency: 75 Years of Global Health Law under WHO Governance” https://t.co/cx6mSRoPyE