Conférence de la Professeure Alicia Yamin «Health and Social Justice»

La professeure Alicia Yamin donnera une conférence sur l’interrelation entre la santé et la justice sociale. Cette conférence est organisée par la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la culture collaborative en droit et politiques de la santé ainsi que le Regroupement Droit, Changements et Gouvernance de l’Université de Montréal.

Biographie

Alicia Ely Yamin, JD MPH, is Program Director of the Health and Human Rights Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center. Yamin is also an Adjunct Lecturer on Law and Global Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, a Global Fellow at the Centre for Law and Social Transformation in Norway, and was selected as the 2015-16 Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights, University of Connecticut. Trained in both law and public health at Harvard, Yamin’s 20-year career at the intersection of health and human rights has bridged academia and activism. Yamin is known globally for her pioneering scholarship and advocacy in relation to economic and social rights and rights-based approaches to health, and in particular maternal and sexual and reproductive health. She has contributed to and consulted on the drafting of multiple General Comments by UN treaty bodies, as well as UN Human Rights Council resolutions.

Répondante de la conférence:

Catherine Régis, professeure agrégée, Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal.

Il n’y a aucun frais pour assister à cette conférence. Vous pouvez vous inscrire ici

Ce contenu a été mis à jour le 22 mars 2017 à 10 h 34 min.