Health and Human Rights: IAS-Lancet Commission focusing action in 2024

Big Issues

SESSION RECORDING

This session highlighted that there is a need to re-invigorate health as a human right because health outcomes have not improved for the most marginalised in our world. In addition to this, it's not enough to think of 'human' rights, we need to be thinking of planetary health and the rights of all living things on the planet.

Lancet Commission:
The Commission reviewed available evidence and developed actionable recommendations in the following health and human rights domains: 

  1. Pandemics and equitable access to essential interventions 

  2. The climate crisis, health, and rights 

  3. Conflict, displacement, migrations, and refugees 

  4. Structural racism, inequity, and discrimination against devalued minorities 

  5. Sexual and reproductive health and rights 

  6. Misinformation, disinformation, and the right to benefit from science

  7. Artificial intelligence

SESSION SUMMARY

Adeeba Kamarulzaman
CEO, Monash Malaysia and Pro-Vice Chancellor and President (Malaysia), Monash University

Sharon Lewin
Director - The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia

SESSION MODERATORS

Lucy Stackpool-Moore
Founder and Managing Director, Watipa, Australia

Lorraine Dean (pre-recorded)
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

James Ward
Director, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland, Australia

Rajat Khosla
Director, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, Malaysia

Rhys Jones
Ngāti Kahungunu/Associate Professor, Te Kupenga Hauora Māori/Department of Māori Health, Waipapa Taumata Rau/The University of Auckland 

Papaarangi Reid
Deputy Dean Māori & Head of Department, Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, University of Auckland

INVITED SPEAKERS

We gratefully acknowledge the following organisations for providing travel and accommodation support for international speakers in this session.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS