Health and social justice conference by Professor Alicia Yamin

Professor Alicia Yamin will hold a conference on the interrelation between health and social justice. This conference is organized by the Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy and University of Montreal’s Regroupement Droit, Changements et Gouvernance (Alliance for law, change, and governance).

Biography

Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH, is Program Director of the Health and Human Rights Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center. Yamin is also an Adjunct Lecturer on Law and Global Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, a Global Fellow at the Centre for Law and Social Transformation in Norway, and was selected as the 2015-16 Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights, University of Connecticut. Trained in both law and public health at Harvard, Yamin’s 20-year career at the intersection of health and human rights has bridged academia and activism. Yamin is known globally for her pioneering scholarship and advocacy in relation to economic and social rights and rights-based approaches to health, and in particular maternal and sexual and reproductive health. She has contributed to and consulted on the drafting of multiple General Comments by UN treaty bodies, as well as UN Human Rights Council resolutions.

Conference discussant

Catherine Régis, associate professor, University of Montreal Faculty of Law

There is no fee to attend this conference. Please register here

This content has been updated on 22 March 2017 at 10 h 34 min.