Working at the intersection of global health, law, and social science to understand the political determinants of health and support the creation of legal and policy environments that stop pandemics, expand access to new health technologies, address women’s and sexual health, tackle inequality, and save lives.
The Center is housed across Georgetown’s Law and Health centers, in recognition that addressing today’s major health challenges–from policy on women’s health and pandemic response to health equity and health system accountability–require a multi-disciplinary approach.
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Working with the Brazilian presidency’s Health Working Group, we convened high level leaders from academia and government at the G20 Health & Finance Ministerial to address the inequality-pandemics cycle.
Through leveraging partnerships, engaging communities, and conducting empirical research to understand racism and structural discrimination in global health, the Commission seeks to advance equity and improve health outcomes around the world.
Using policy surveillance methods, we conducted an empirical analysis of the national law and policy environments on health and care workers’ protection and rights in 182 countries.
