Frameworks provide new paradigm for global health law
School of Social Policy & Practice’s Jennifer Prah has written a comprehensive framework that takes a worldwide approach to attaining global health goals.
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Aiming to provide a new model for global health law, a recent essay in the Journal of Global Health Law by Jennifer Prah of the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) and Perelman School of Medicine outlines comprehensive frameworks for attaining global health justice.
“Global society needs a paradigm shift, an understanding of global health realities as problems that can and must be solved,” writes Prah, the Amartya Sen Professor of Health Equity, Economics, and Policy and director of the Ortner Center on Violence & Abuse and founder and director of the Health Equity and Policy Lab at SP2.
The frameworks include Provincial Globalism and Shared Health Governance, both of which Prah previously laid out in her book “Global Health Justice and Governance” (Oxford University Press, 2018). The proposed architecture includes a Global Health Constitution to establish standards of health justice cooperation, a Global Institute of Health and Medicine based on independent scientific evidence, and a Master Plan for Global Health that outlines implementation.
Overall, Prah aims to provide the structures and tools to support a cohesive worldwide approach. “Under these theories, global health law is not a component of any country’s foreign policy or state interest nor a legally enforceable, coercively mandated rules regime imposed on states. Rather it is a collection of tools and processes bringing together state and non-state actors worldwide to achieve global health equity,” she writes.
This story is by Juliana Rosati. To read a longer version of the story, visit SP2 News.
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