The ACA: Towards “A State of Complete Physical, Mental and Social Well-Being”

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“Advancing the health of our nations is a fundamental commitment we make to all our people,” said U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sibelius in representation of the Americas before the World Health Assembly in May 2013. She then added, “[a]s President Obama recently reminded us, access to health care is ‘not some […]

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02.12.13

Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Where are States on the 2014 Market Reforms?

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This post was written by Katie Keith, Assistant Research Professor, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center on Health Insurance Reforms. Any questions or comments about this post can be directed to kmk82@georgetown.edu. With many of the legal and political challenges to the Affordable Care Act now over, all eyes will be on the states as […]

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02.06.13

Our Recent Publications in Global Health Law

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2012 was a busy year for us all. Below are some of our most recent publications on Global Health Law. Feel free to explore these highlighted works and visit our publications page for additional journals, studies, articles and more. O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. 2012. Tobacco Industry Strategy in Latin American Courts: A Litigation […]

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06.23.11

Looking the Other Way: Mental Health in a Nation Fixated on Healthcare

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Last week, DC police forcefully entered a man’s home and fatally shot him, twice. Jean Louis, a mentally ill 55-year-old, had resided in the same apartment for over thirty years. His neighbors knew him to be alternately friendly and erratic, but on the day of his death, he had neither hurt anyone nor committed a […]

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06.01.11

The World Health Assembly: Reforming the WHO and Global Governance for Health

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Note: An earlier version of this post, drafted by Eric A. Friedman, O’Neill Institute Law Fellow and Lawrence O. Gostin, O’Neill Institute Faculty Director, was disseminated as an O’Neill Institute Briefing on May 18, 2011. In late May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) discussed an ambitious agenda of reform of the World Health Organization (WHO) […]

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Yamin, Alicia Ely. Dignity Matters: Applying Human Rights Frameworks to Health, 2016. https://vimeo.com/182616494.

Barroso, Carmen, Kul Chandra Gautam, Brenda Killen, Pali Lehohia, Winfred Osimbo LIchuma, Elizabeth Mason, Vinod K. Paul, Giorgi Pkhakadze, Dakshitha Wickremarathne, and Alicia Ely Yamin. “Transformative Accountability for Adolescents: Accountability for the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children, and Adolescents in the 2030 Agenda,” September 18, 2017. http://iapreport.org/2017/files/IAP%20Annual%20Report%202017-web%20_%20without%20endnotes.pdf.

Yamin, Alicia Ely. A Brief Introduction to Human Rights. Human Rights, 2017. https://vimeopro.com/gheli/human-rights-series.

Yamin, Alicia Ely. “PAHO Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas.” Presentation, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, January 25, 2019.

Yamin, Alicia Ely. “John and Valerie Rowe Scholars Visiting Lecture.” Presentation, University of Connecticut, April 18, 2018. https://honors.uconn.edu/2018/04/27/2018-rowe-lecture/.

Jain, Vipin, Aleksandra Alcheva, Darlene Huang, Rosalie Caruso, Anushu Jain, Mula Lay, Richard O’Connor, and Irina Stepanov. “Comprehensive Chemical Characterization of Natural American Spirit Cigarettes.” Tobacco Regulatory Science 5, no. 4 (July 1, 2019): 381–99. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/trsg/trs/2019/00000005/00000004/art00008.

Becker, Melinda, Regina LaBelle, Sonia Canzater, and Kirk Williamson. “Addressing the Rise of Infectious Disease Related to Injection Drug Use: Lessons Learned from Kentucky.” National Governors Association, May 2019. https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NGA-Brief-Lessons-Learned-From-Kentucky-May-2019.pdf.

Becker, Melinda, Shums Alikhan, Regina LaBelle, and Sonia Canzater. “State Approaches to Addressing the Infectious Consequences of the Opioid Epidemic: Insights from an NGA Learning Lab.” National Governors Association, May 2019. https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NGA-Brief-State-Approaches-to-Addressing-Infectious-Disease-May-2019.pdf.

Canzater, Sonia, and Jeffrey S. Crowley. “Eliminating Hepatitis C Among People Living with HIV in the United States: Leveraging the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program to Move Us Forward,” June 12, 2019. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/ONL_RW_Rpt__2019.pdf.

Reingold, Rebecca, and Lawrence O. Gostin. “State Abortion Restrictions and the New Supreme Court: Women’s Access to Reproductive Health Services,” June 5, 2019. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2735678?guestAccessKey=76276d02-a8cb-4b7a-8382-ac6e97a42596&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=060519.

Lindbom, Eric. “Illicit Trade Poses No Threat to an FDA Rule to Minimize Nicotine in Smoked Tobacco Products.” American Journal of Public Health 109, no. 7 (June 5, 2019): 960–61. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305138.

O’Neill Institute, Harrison Institute for Public Law, and Health Justice Alliance. “Oral Health Convening Focusing on Children with Special Health Care Needs,” March 29, 2018. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/ONL_Oral_Health_Report_P3_web.pdf.

Kavanagh, Matthew. “Good Health Supports Good Governance.” Foreign Policy, May 25, 2019. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/24/good-health-supports-good-governance/.

Gostin, Lawrence, Ibrahim Abubakar, Ranieri Guerra, Sabina F Rasid, Eric Friedman, and Zsuzanna Jakab. “WHO Takes Action to Promote the Health of Refugees and Migrants.” The Lancet 393, no. 10185 (May 18, 2019). https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)31051-7/fulltext.

Gostin, Lawrence. “The ‘Conscience’ Rule: How Will It Affect Patients’ Access to Health Services?” News@JAMA, May 15, 2019. https://newsatjama.jama.com/2019/05/15/jama-forum-the-conscience-rule-how-will-it-affect-patients-access-to-health-services/.

Friedman, Eric A. “How to Achieve Health Equity.” Project Syndicate, March 6, 2019. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/health-equity-sdgs-programs-of-action-by-eric-a-friedman-2019-03.

Kavanagh, Matthew, and Lixue Chen. “Governance and Health Aid from the Global Fund: Effects Beyond Fighting Disease.” Annals of Global Health 85, no. 1 (May 12, 2019): 69. http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2505.

Gostin, Lawrence O., John T. Monahan, Jenny Kaldor, Mary DeBartolo, Eric A Friedman, Susan C Kim, Ala Alwan, et al. “The Legal Determinants of Health: Harnessing the Power of Law for Global Health and Sustainable Development.” The Lancet, April 30, 2019. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(19)30233-8.pdf#%20.

Friedman, Eric A. “How to Achieve Health Equity.” Project Syndicate, March 6, 2019. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/health-equity-sdgs-programs-of-action-by-eric-a-friedman-2019-03.

Gostin, Lawrence O. “A National Action Plan to Eliminate Vaccine Preventable Childhood Diseases.” The Milbank Quarterly, May 6, 2019. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/a-national-action-plan-to-eliminate-vaccine-preventable-childhood-diseases/?utm_content=buffer64e0e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer.

Lindblom, Eric. “If E-Cigarettes Are a Top Priority, Why Hasn’t the FDA Issued a New Rule?” The Washington Post, March 24, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-e-cigarettes-are-a-top-priority-why-hasnt-the-fda-issued-a-new-rule/2019/03/24/a5efdb58-4cc2-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html?utm_term=.0bec677624ac.

Gostin, Lawrence, and James G. Hodge Jr. “Potential Discrimination in NYC’s Measles Public Health Emergency Order.” The Hill, April 11, 2019. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/438301-potential-discrimination-in-nycs-measles-public-health-emergency-order.

Lindblom, Eric. “If E-Cigarettes Are a Top Priority, Why Hasn’t the FDA Issued a New Rule?” The Washington Post, March 24, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-e-cigarettes-are-a-top-priority-why-hasnt-the-fda-issued-a-new-rule/2019/03/24/a5efdb58-4cc2-11e9-8cfc-2c5d0999c21e_story.html?utm_term=.30de292acb0f.

Crowley, Jeffrey S. “Trump’s HIV Plan Is Bold. But Can He Back It Up?” Roll Call, March 12, 2019. https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/trump-hiv-aids-medicare-aca.

Friedman, Eric A. “How to Achieve Health Equity.” Project Syndicate, March 6, 2019. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/health-equity-sdgs-programs-of-action-by-eric-a-friedman-2019-03.

LaBelle, Regina, and Jeffrey S Crowley. “Building Bridges for Action: Ending the HIV and Opioid Epidemic.” The HIll, February 24, 2019. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/431356-building-bridges-for-action-ending-the-hiv-and-opioid-epidemic.

Gostin, Lawrence O., and Eric A. Friedman. “The Lancet Commission on Global Health Law: How Law Can Advance the Right To Health.” Health Affairs, May 1, 2019. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190430.743234/full/.

Gostin, Lawrence O., Scott C. Ratzan, and Barry R. Bloom. “Safe Vaccinations for a Healthy Nation US Vaccine Coverage Through Law, Science, and Communication.” JAMA, April 19, 2019. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2731738.

Crowley, Jeffrey S., and Sean E. Bland. “Bolstering Latinx Gay and Bisexual Men: To Promote Health and Reduce HIV Transmission,” March 2019. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/Latinx-Gay-and-Bi-Men.pdf.

Stephens, John. “Tuberculosis in Prison’s: A People’s Introduction to the Law,” January 2019. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/TB-in-Prisons-Web.pdf.

Stephens, John, Bella Hwang, Amir Shroufi, Tinne Gils, Sarah Jane Steele, Anna Grimsud, Andrew Boulle, et al. “Stock-Outs of Antiretroviral and Tuberculosis Medicines in South Africa: A National Cross-Sectional Survey.” PLOS One, March 12, 2019. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0212405.

Gostin, Lawrence O, Neil R Sircar, and Eric Friedman. “Fighting Novel Diseases amidst Humanitarian Crises.” Hastings Center Report 49, no. 1 (February 21, 2019): 6–9. https://doi.org/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.970.

Lindblom, Eric N., Andrea C. Johnson, Tiffany Gray, George Luta, and Darren Mays. “How and Why Consumers View ‘Little Cigars’ as Legally-Defined Cigarettes.” Tobacco Regulatory Science 5, no. 2 (March 2019): 124–34. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/trsg/trs/2019/00000005/00000002/art00004.

Gostin, Lawrence, Alexandra Phelan, Alex Godwin Coutinho, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Ngozi Erondu, Oyebanji Filani, Tom Inglesby, et al. “Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Time to Sound a Global Alert?” The Lancet, February 4, 2019. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30243-0.

Crowley, Jeffrey S, and Sean Bland. “Big Ideas: State and Local ‘End the Epidemic’ Plans Can Drive HIV Progress,” n.d. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/ONL_Gilead_B1_Zero_P5.pdf.

Crowley, Jeffery S, and Sean Bland. “Big Ideas: Leveraging the Ryan White Program to Make Rapid Start of HIV Therapy Standard Practice,” December 2018. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/ONL_Gilead_B2_Rapid_P4.pdf.

Crowley, Jeffrey S, and Sean Bland. “Quick Take: HIV Prevention in the United States,” January 2019. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/HIV-Prevention-Quick-Take-1.pdf.

Crowley, Jeffrey S, and Sean Bland. “Quick Take: The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program,” January 2019. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/Ryan-White-Quick-Take.pdf.

Gostin, Lawrence O. “Living, Aging, and Dying in Healthy and Just Societies: Life Lessons From My Father.” The Milbank Quaterly, January 2019. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/living-aging-and-dying-in-healthy-and-just-societies-life-lessons-from-my-father/.

Gostin, Lawrence O. “The ‘Great’ Generation and a Not-So-Great Health System.” The Milbank Quarterly 95 (December 2017): 698–701. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/great-generation-not-great-health-system/.

Gostin, Lawrence ). “A Beautiful Life in a Vibrant Yet Vulnerable City.” The Milbank Quaterly Volume 96 (April 2018): 239–43. https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/beautiful-life-vibrant-yet-vulnerable-city/.

Lindblom, Eric N. “Additional Comments Submitted to FDA Re Draft Concept Paper: Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products After Implementation of a Good and Drug Administration Product Standard,” June 22, 2018. https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FDA-2018-N-0529-0041.

Kavanagh, Matthew, and Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola. “Policy Change and Micro-Politics in Global Health Aid: HIV in South Africa.” Health Policy and Planning, January 9, 2019. https://academic.oup.com/heapol/advance-article/doi/10.1093/heapol/czy103/5281233#.

Lindblom, Eric N. “How FDA Could Use Its Existing Authorities to Make State Legalization of Cannabis More Safe and Effective.” Food & Drug Law Journal, April 2019.

Lindblom, Eric N. “Should FDA Try to Move Smokers to E-Cigarettes and Other Less-Harmful Tobacco Products and, If So, How?” Food & Drug Law Journal 73, no. 2 (May 31, 2018): 276–318. http://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/media/Lindblom-Should-FDA-Move-Smokers-to-E-Cigs-FDLJ.pdf.

Berman, Micah L., Justin Bryon, Natalie Hemmerich, Eric N. Linblom, Allison J. Lazard, Ellen Peters, and Noel T. Brewer. “Communicating Tobacco Product Information to the Public.” Food & Drug Law Journal 72, no. 3 (February 1, 2018): 386–405. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5794026/.

Mays, Darren, Andrea Villanti, Raymond S. Niaura, Eric N. Lindblom, and Andrew A. Strasser. “The Effects of Varying Electronic Cigarette Warning Label Design Features on Attention, Recall, and Product Perceptions Among Young Adults.” Journal of Health Communications, December 13, 2017. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2017.1372050.

Levy, DT, R Borland, and Eric N. Lindblom. “Potential Deaths Averted in USA by Replacing Cigarettes with E-Cigarettes.” Tobacco Control 27, no. 1 (January 2018): 18–25. http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/tobaccocontrol-2017-053759?ijkey=otCdRShxwj4c1aF&keytype=ref.

Cohn, AM, and Eric N. Lindblom. “Harm Perceptions of Menthol and Nonmenthol Cigarettes Differ by Brand, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender in US Adult Smokers: Results from PATH Wave 1.” Nicotine & Tobacco Research, January 27, 2018. https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntx277/4827099?searchresult=1.

Moran, MM, and Eric N. Lindblom. “Beyond ‘Natural’: Cigarette Ad Tactics That Mislead about Relative Risk.” Tobacco Regulatory Science 4, no. 5 (September 2018): 3–19. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/trsg/trs/2018/00000004/00000005/art00001.

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