Advancing the Right to Health-The Vital Role of Law

Lawrence O Gostin1, Roger S Magnusson1, Rüdiger Krech1

  • 1Lawrence O. Gostin, Katharina Ó Cathaoir, and Sarah A. Roache are with the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC. Roger S. Magnusson is with the Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Rüdiger Krech, Steven A. Solomon, and Derek Walton are with the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Marie-Paule Kieny is with the World Health Organization, Inserm, France. David W. Patterson is with the International Development Law Organization, The Hague, The Netherlands. Gian Luca Burci is with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.

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