The Right to Health in Resource Constrained Settings: Rights, Litigation, and Social Justice

Chr. Michelsen Institute, Department of Comparative Politics; Department of Public Health and Primary Health and Faculty of Law - UiB

   Course leaders: 

• Siri Gloppen , Professor, Chr. Michelsen Institute /Department of Comparative Politics UiB
• Ole Frithjof Norheim, Professor, Department of Public Health and Primary Health, UiB
• Henriette Sinding Aasen, Professor, Faculty of Law, UiB

Invited course leader:

• Alicia Yamin, Research Fellow, Harvard Law School, USA

Short Course description

International human rights documents establishes “the right to the highest attainable standards of mental and physical health” but there are questions both as to what this entails in practice – what it requires in terms of the allocation of health care resources, particularly in resource constrained settings – and how accountability can be established to ensure that the right to health is respected, protected and promoted.

The course will approach the challenges of advancing the right to health in resource constrained settings from different perspectives. It is developed in collaboration between the Chr. Michelsen Institute; the Section for Medical Ethics, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care and and the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen. It is linked to ongoing international research projects on “Litigating the right to health” and “The ethics of priority setting in global health”.

For full course description and syllabus: click here (PDF)