Lisa Forman

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Assistant professor

155 College Street

Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7

Canada

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1.

The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

University of Groningen Faculty of Law Research Paper No.14/2023
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 May 2023 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2023
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, Sheffield Hallam University - Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, University of Essex - School of Law, University of Geneva - Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID), UNAIDS, University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town (UCT) - Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, University of Warwick - Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), International Commission of Jurists, King’s College London, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law, Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, York University, World Health Organization, Center for Biomedical EthicsTaipei Medical University, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, CSEF - University of Naples Federico II, Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health, International Commission of Jurists, Madhira Institute, International Commission of Jurists, University of Warwick, United Nations, University of GroningenUniversity of Groningen - Faculty of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Washington - School of Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network, Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and Physicians for Human Rights
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global health law, public health law, human rights, public international law, public health emergency

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Chapter One: Introduction: Access to Medicines as a Human Right – What Does it Mean for Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibilities?

Access to Medicines as a Human Right: Implications for Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibility, Lisa Forman and Jillian Clare Kohler, eds., University of Toronto Press, 2012
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Oct 2012
Lisa Forman and Jillian C. Kohler
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
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right to health, access to medicines, corporate responsibility, global health

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From TRIPS-Plus to Rights-Plus? Exploring Right to Health Impact Assessment of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Through the Thai Experience

Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 347-375, 2012
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Mar 2013
Lisa Forman
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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TRIPS, TRIPS-Plus, right to health, right to health impact assessment tool, RTHIA, Thai-U.S. FTA negotiation, National Human Rights Commission of Thailand

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Can Minimum Core Obligations Survive a Reasonableness Standard of Review Under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?

Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2016
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2017
Lisa Forman
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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'Rights' and Wrongs: What Utility for the Right to Health in Reforming Trade Rules on Medicines?

Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, Vol. 10, Vol. 2, p. 37, 2008
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 May 2009 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2014
Lisa Forman
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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right to health, trade, intellectual property, access to medicines

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What Future for the Minimum Core? Contextualizing the Implications of South African Socioeconomic Rights Jurisprudence for the International Human Right to Health

GLOBAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS: LEGAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES, John Harrington, Maria Stuttaford, eds., Routledge, 2009
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Feb 2011
Lisa Forman
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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right to health, minimum core, South African constitutionalism

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Exploring the Synergies between Human Rights and Public Health Ethics: A Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts

BMC International Health and Human Rights, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2008
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Feb 2008
Stephanie Nixon and Lisa Forman
University of Toronto - Department of Physical Therapy and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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human rights, public health ethics

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The Stellenbosch Consensus on the International Legal Obligation to Collaborate and Assist in Addressing Pandemics: Clarifying Article 44 of the International Health Regulations

International Organizations Law Review (2020), DOI No: 10.1163/15723747-2020024
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 21 May 2023
York University, York University, University of Geneva - Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID), University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town (UCT) - Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, King’s College London, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, CSEF - University of Naples Federico II, University of Antwerp - Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), University of Warwick, University of Washington - School of Law and Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
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Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; treaty interpretation; international health regulations; international organizations; World Health Organization; international duty to assist; global health governance; international human rights law

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An Elementary Consideration of Humanity? Linking Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights to the Human Right to Health in International Law

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 155-175, 2011
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Lisa Forman
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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international law, right to health, WTO

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Global Aids Funding and the Re-Emergence of AIDS ‘Exceptionalism’

Social Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 45-51, 2011
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 23 Aug 2011
Lisa Forman
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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The Value of Mainstreaming Human Rights into Health Impact Assessment

11 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 10076-10090 (2014)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 01 Oct 2014
Gillian MacNaughton and Lisa Forman
Social and Economic Rights Associates and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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human rights, right to health, impact assessment, international trade agreements, essential medicines, intellectual property

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Analyzing the Human Rights Impact of Increased Digital Public Health Surveillance during the COVID-19 Crisis

Health & Human Rights Journal, Vol. 22, No 2, December 2020
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 15 Dec 2020
University of Warwick, University of Geneva, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
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COVID-19, Human Rights, Public Health, Surveillance, Technology

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Submission on the first draft general recommendation no. 37 (2023) on racial discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to health

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 11 Aug 2023
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Essex - School of Law, University of Geneva - Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID), University of Geneva, King’s College London, Sheffield Hallam University - Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Center for Biomedical EthicsTaipei Medical University, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, CSEF - University of Naples Federico II, Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Warwick, University of Washington - School of Law and Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
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right to health, racial discrimination, international human rights law

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The Stellenbosch Consensus on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks

International Organizations Law Review (2020)
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 14 Dec 2020
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, York University, University of Geneva - Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID), University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town (UCT) - Faculty of Law, York University, University of Geneva, King’s College London, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, CSEF - University of Naples Federico II, University of Antwerp - Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), University of Warwick, University of Washington - School of Law and Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
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Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, International Health Regulations, international organizations, World Health Organization, global health law, pandemics, travel bans, trade restrictions

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The Ghost Is the Machine: How Can We Visibilize the Unseen Norms and Power of Global Health?; Comment on 'Navigating between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health'

Int J Health Policy Manag. 2016; 5(3):197–199. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2015.206
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 08 Feb 2016
Lisa Forman
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Global Health; Norms; Power; Interdisciplinarity; Reflexivity; Equity

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Employing Human Rights Frameworks to Realize Access to an HIV Cure

Benjamin Mason Meier, Adriane Gelpi, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Lisa Forman & Joseph J. Amon, Employing Human Rights Frameworks to Realize Access to an HIV Cure, 18 JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY 1-7 (2015).
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 26 Jan 2016
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Harvard University - Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Georgetown University, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Human Rights Watch
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HIV cure, human rights, right to health, operations research, global governance, essential medicines.

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Rights Language in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Has Right to Health Discourse and Norms Shaped Health Goals?

Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015;4(12):799–804. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2015.171
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 17 Nov 2015
Lisa Forman, Gorik Ooms and Claire Brolan
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, University of Antwerp - Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) and School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Right to Health; Global Health Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Making the Case for Human Rights in Global Health Education, Research and Policy

Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 102, No. 3, p. 207, 2011
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 23 Nov 2011
Lisa Forman
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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From Conception to Realization: A Human Right to Health

Hastings Center Report, p. 4, May-June 2010
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 27 Dec 2011
Benjamin Mason Meier and Lisa Forman
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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human rights, right to health, rights-based accountability

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Travel Restrictions and Variants of Concern: Global Health Laws Need to Reflect Evidence

Meier, Benjamin Mason et al. “Travel restrictions and variants of concern: global health laws need to reflect evidence.” Bulletin of the World Health Organization vol. 100,3 (2022): 178-178A. doi:10.2471/BLT.21.287735
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 20 Apr 2022
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, University of Essex - School of Law, University of Geneva - Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID), University of Cape Town (UCT) - Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, King’s College London, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, CSEF - University of Naples Federico II, Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Warwick, University of Washington - School of Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and York University
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travel restrictions, COVID-19, Global Health Law

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An Inquiry into State Agreement and Practice on the International Law Status of the Human Right to Medicines

Lisa Forman, Basema Al-Alami & Kaitlin Fajber, “An Inquiry into State Agreement and Practice on the International Law Status of the Human Right to Medicines” (2022) 24:2 Health Hum. Rights 125.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 13 Mar 2023
Lisa Forman, Basema Alami and Kaitlin Fajber
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and University of Toronto - Dalla Lana School of Public Health
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Covid-19, access to medicines, vaccines, affordable medicine, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, international law.

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From Almost Empty to Half Full? A Response to Recent Commentaries

Int J Health Policy Manag. 2016;5(11):673–674
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 14 Nov 2016
Lisa Forman, Gorik Ooms and Claire E. Brolan
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany and University of Queensland - School of Public Health
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Right to Health, Global Health Policy, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Solidarity in the Wake of COVID-19: Reimagining the International Health Regulations

The Lancet, 396(10244), 82-83
Posted: 25 Feb 2021
University of Washington - School of Law, University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, University of Geneva - Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID), University of Geneva, King’s College London, Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, University of Cape Town (UCT) - Faculty of Law, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, University of Antwerp - Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), University of Warwick and York University

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Moving Theory into Practice: Human Rights Impact Assessments of Intellectual Property Rights in Trade Agreements

7(1) Journal of Human Rights Practice109-138 (2015)
Posted: 27 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2015
Lisa Forman and Gillian MacNaughton
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Social and Economic Rights Associates

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human rights, impact assessment, affordable medicines, international trade, intellectual property rights

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Human Rights and Health Impact Assessment of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights: A Comparative Study of Experiences in Thailand and Peru

14(1) Journal of Human Rights 124-148 (2015)
Posted: 28 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2015
Gillian MacNaughton and Lisa Forman
Social and Economic Rights Associates and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

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human rights, public health, TRIPS, impact assessment, affordable medicines

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A Global Social Contract to Reduce Maternal Mortality: The Human Rights Arguments and the Case of Uganda

Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 21, No. 42, November 2013, pp 129-138
Posted: 08 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2014
University of Antwerp - Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, University of Nairobi, School of Law, University of Nairobi and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

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human rights, right to health, reproductive rights, maternal mortality, fiscal space, displacement, Uganda

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Trade Rules, Intellectual Property, and the Right to Health

Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall 2007
Posted: 10 Feb 2008
Lisa Forman
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

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right to health, trade, access to medicines