Publications by Eric Friedman

publications by Eric A. Friedman

Op-Ed

September 17, 2024

Can a Treating Physician’s Medical Testimony Be “Lay Opinion”? Divided Sixth Circuit Panel Disagrees on Where to Draw the Line

Op-Ed

August 22, 2024

The world can’t keep ignoring the resurging genocide in Darfur

Journal Article

June 10, 2024

The Health and Human Rights Impact Assessment: The Preeminent Value of Equity

Journal Article

April 11, 2024

The World Health Organization was born as a normative agency: Seventy-five years of global health law under WHO governance

Journal Article

July 25, 2023

The global health and care worker compact: evidence base and policy considerations

Op-Ed

May 23, 2023

The human toll of a debt default would be felt worldwide

Op-Ed

April 25, 2023

The Global Health Architecture: Governance and International Institutions to Advance Population Health Worldwide

Op-Ed

January 19, 2023

Title 42 Exclusions of Asylum Seekers—A Misuse of Public Health Powers

Briefing

December 5, 2022

Pandemic Treaty: The Conceptual Zero Draft

Journal Article

November 17, 2022

Human rights and the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective and prospective analysis

Op-Ed

September 12, 2022

Will Our Judiciary Elevate Religious Freedoms Above Public Health?

Op-Ed

June 23, 2022

This Is the Best Evidence Yet That Anti-Vaxxers Kill

Op-Ed

June 9, 2022

Opinion: WHA’s Russia vote is a call to side with health, human rights

Op-Ed

June 1, 2022

At Long Last, Member States Agree to Fix the World Health Organization’s Financing Problem

Op-Ed

April 21, 2022

Ukraine: A Turning Point for Attacks on Health

Op-Ed

March 1, 2022

What Does Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Record Mean for America’s Health?

Journal Article

December 8, 2021

New York City Mayor De Blasio Issues The Nation’s Broadest Private Employer Vaccine Mandate On His Way Out Of Office

Briefing

December 4, 2021

O’Neill Briefing: World Health Assembly Special Session Launches Historic Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to Develop a WHO Convention or Other International Instrument on Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Op-Ed

October 20, 2021

President Biden: It’s time for an urgent and effective plan to vaccinate the world

Open Letter

September 30, 2021

U.S. Leadership Needed for Global COVID-19 Vaccination: Letter to Congress

Open Letter

September 30, 2021

U.S. Leadership Needed for Global COVID-19 Vaccination: Letter to President Biden

Op-Ed

September 22, 2021

What’s the Plan for Vaccinating the World?

Op-Ed

August 24, 2021

The Whole World Needs Vaccines Before a Worse Variant Than Delta Arrives

Op-Ed

August 24, 2021

To Get Everyone Vaccinated, The United States Needs A National Vaccination Corps

Op-Ed

May 20, 2021

This Investigation Lays Out What The World Needs To Fight the Next Pandemic

Journal Article

April 28, 2021

Planning for health equity in the Americas: an analysis of national health plans

Op-Ed

April 5, 2021

The World Needs a Post-Pandemic Health Treaty With Teeth

Op-Ed

March 2, 2021

These Four Policy Changes Could Help Us Get Vaccines For The Next Pandemic Even Faster

Op-Ed

February 1, 2021

U.S. Vaccine Rollout Looks Bad—Until You Look Elsewhere

Journal Article

January 22, 2021

How the Biden Administration Can Reinvigorate Global Health Security, Institutions, and Governance

Op-Ed

January 19, 2021

Wealthy Countries Should Share Vaccine Doses Before It Is Too Late

Open Letter

October 10, 2020

U.S. Global COVID-19 Leadership Action Plan

Op-Ed

September 15, 2020

Joining COVAX Could Save American Lives

Op-Ed

August 25, 2020

On the Framework Convention on Global Health

Op-Ed

July 15, 2020

Working With Other Countries To Fight The Coronavirus Pandemic Protects America’s National Interests

Open Letter

June 30, 2020

Letter to Congress on WHO Withdrawal from Public Health, Law and International Relations Leaders

Op-Ed

June 22, 2020

Let the learning begin — a WHO open-access platform could transform COVID-19 response

Op-Ed

May 15, 2020

Why America Must Lead a Global Action Plan for the Covid-19 Pandemic

Journal Article

October 25, 2019

Putting health equity at heart of universal coverage—the need for national programmes of action

Journal Article

June 9, 2019

Fighting Novel Diseases Amidst Humanitarian Crises

Journal Article

May 18, 2019

WHO takes action to promote the health of refugees and migrants

Op-Ed

May 1, 2019

The Lancet Commission on Global Health Law: How Law Can Advance the Right To Health

Report

April 30, 2019

The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development

Op-Ed

March 6, 2019

How to Achieve Health Equity

Report

January 22, 2019

Health Equity Programs of Action

Report

September 11, 2018

Migration, Tuberculosis and the Law: An Urgent Need for a Rights-Based Approach

Op-Ed

September 5, 2018

How The US Elevates Corporate Interests Over Global Public Health. And How The World Can Respond

Op-Ed

April 13, 2018

Countries Need to Build National Health Equity Strategies. Here’s How.

Op-Ed

March 23, 2018

Why community and not confinement will end TB

Journal Article

June 9, 2016

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Achieving the Vision of Global Health with Justice

Journal Article

November 22, 2015

The International Health Regulations 10 Years On: The Governing Framework for Global Health Security

Journal Article

October 24, 2015

Imagining Global Health with Justice: In Defense of the Right to Health

Briefing

June 8, 2015

Ebola, The World Health Organization, and Beyond: Toward a Framework for Global Health Security

Journal Article

May 9, 2015

A Retrospective and Prospective Analysis of the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic: Robust National Health Systems at the Foundation and an Empowered WHO at the Apex

Op-Ed

November 4, 2014

State Quarantine Powers Under the Constitution: Fear in an Age of Ebola

Briefing

August 20, 2014

West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic Is Out of Control, but Never Had to Happen

Journal Article

January 9, 2014

Great expectations for the World Health Organization: a Framework Convention on Global Health to achieve universal health coverage

Journal Article

October 13, 2013

Realizing the Right to Health Through a Framework Convention on Global Health?

Journal Article

August 19, 2013

Pillars for Progress on the Right to Health: Harnessing the potential of human rights through a Framework Convention on Global Health

Journal Article

May 10, 2011

The Joint Action and Learning Initiative: Towards a Global Agreement on National and Global Responsibilities for Health

Op-Ed

December 15, 2010

The Right to Health as the Unheralded Narrative of Health Care Reform

Report

June 9, 2010

The Joint Action and Learning Initiative on National and Global Responsibilities for Health

Chapter

June 9, 2009

Building Rights-Based Health Systems: A Focus on the Health Workforce

Report

August 9, 2008

The Right to Health and Health Workforce Planning

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