Health and Human Rights : What Can We Do?

The International AIDS Society Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights has formulated recommendations around key domains at the intersection of health and human rights. The International AIDS Society Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights, formed in 2021, brought together 23 commissioners from around the globe with a wide variety of expertise. The commissioners, including Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA, distinguished professor of population and public health sciences and law, and director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, met monthly for several years. Gruskin gives high praise and credit to the co-chairs and her fellow commissioners, noting their aim as a group was to collectively identify areas where they could make a difference regarding health and human rights, and to develop global recommendations around those areas. With the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a guiding beacon, the Commission developed recommendations in eight domains that could be addressed globally in proactive ways to make a tangible difference. In this video, Gruskin discusses the recommendations and their relationship to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ----------------- Co-chairs for the AIDS Society-Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights are Chris Beyrer, MD and Adeeba Kamarulzaman, FRACP. Commissioners as listed by The Lancet are Chris Beyrer, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Michael Isbell, Joseph Amon, Stefan Baral, Mary T Bassett, Javier Cepeda, Harriet Deacon, Lorraine Dean, Lilianne Fan, Rita Giacaman, Carolyn Gomes, Sofia Gruskin, Ravi Goyal, Sandra Hsu Hnin Mon, Samer Jabbour, Michel Kazatchkine, Kasoka Kasoka, Carrie Lyons, Allan Maleche, Natasha Martin, Martin McKee, Vera Paiva, Lucy Platt, Dainius Puras, Robert Schooley, Gerson Smoger, Lucy Stackpool-Moore, Peter Vickerman, Josephine G Walker, Leonard Rubenstein. ----------------- Learn more and read the full report from the AIDS Society-Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights: www.thelancet.com/commissions/health-and-human-rights Learn more about the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health: globalhealth.usc.edu ----------------- Want to know what you can do? Write to your representatives and make your voice heard at the ballot box. #votingispublichealth #humanrights #publichealth #publichealtheducation #humanrightsadvocacy #health #lancet