global health research is essentially a normative undertaking: we use it to propose policies that ought to be implemented. to arrive at a normative conclusion in a logical way requires at least one normative premise, one that cannot be derived from empirical evidence alone. but there is no widely accepted normative premise for global health, and the actors with the power to set policies may use...

This column addresses the need to strengthen human rights in global health, looking violations of law pandemic response recommend rights-based reforms health law. The opens by examining fundamental importance rights, recognizing centrality governance. Notwithstanding evolution health-related under international law, COVID-19 has posed sweeping implications for realization with state responses f...

1 School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2 Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 4 O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 5 European Observator...

BACKGROUND Current legal efforts to document human rights violations typically include interviews in which survivors are asked to provide detailed descriptions of their traumatic experiences during a single meeting. Research on similar interview techniques used as part of a mental health treatment (eg, debriefing) has raised concerns that they might worsen mental health-more than doubling the r...

Gorik Ooms recently made a strong case for considering the centrality of normative premises to analyzing and understanding the underappreciated importance of the nexus of politics, power and process in global health. This critical commentary raises serious questions for the practice and study of global health and global health governance. First and foremost, this commentary underlines the impor...

This is a rather unorthodox treatment of global competition law and Asian competition law. We do not explore for the micro-economic ideal type of global competition law, nor do we survey the convergences with and deviations from this ideal type to be found throughout the countries of Asia. For this we would recommend, for a start, David Gerber’s Global Competition Law and R. Ian McEwin’s Compet...

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. These technologies allow communications between patient and medical staff with convenience as well as the transmission of medical, imaging and health informatics data from one site to another. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations. A...

The formulation of global health policy is political; and all institutions operating in the global health landscape are political. This is because policies and institutions inevitably represent certain values, reflect particular ideologies, and preferentially serve some interests over others. This may be expressed explicitly and consciously; or implicitly and unconsciously. But it’s important t...