| Philosophers and medical practitioners collaborated in search of greater precision on the application of human rights concepts to health and health care. |
This project aimed to strengthen and consolidate an emerging program cluster on Health and Human Rights by engaging faculty in the humanities and the Pritzker School of Medicine to address fundamental questions underlying the notion of health as a human right. Many things have been claimed to be a human right, a claim that indicates great moral significance, asserts heightened stakes, and calls for swift and decisive remedy. But which elements of health and health care qualify as a human right? Philosophers and practitioners approach these questions from distinct viewpoints. Through multiple campus discussions and a one-day conference during the 2014-2015 AY, this project sought greater precision on the application of human rights concepts to health and health care, including a philosophically-grounded position on the question of who has the obligation to meet health care human rights.
Senior Lecturer in the College
University of Chicago
Susan Gzesh is a Senior Lecturer in the College at the University of Chicago, where she directed the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights from 2001 until 2020. She is also of counsel to Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym (Chicago). She has worked as a legal advisor to the governments of Mexico...
Chief Integrated Health Officer at Heartland Alliance, guest lecturer at the Pozen Center, former Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Pritzker School
University of Chicago
Dr. Evan Lyon is Chief Integrated Health Officer at Heartland Alliance and a guest lecturer at the Pozen Center. Previously, Dr. Lyon was Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Since the late 1990s, he has worked extensively in Haiti with...
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Chicago
Dr. Renslow Sherer is Professor in the Department of Medicine–Infectious Diseases and Global Health.
Dr. Sherer’s research focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention, clinical trials, and health education programs for orphans and families with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.
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