Graduate Prerequisites: SPH PH719 or consent of instructor. - Health law, bioethics, and human rights converge within the field of public health at the national and global levels. This seminar explores the theoretical meaning of this convergence, engages the sources of authority for human rights, law and ethics and uses case studies to examine tools that can make public health professionals more effective in the realms of social justice and equity. Examples include the U.S. laws as well as international standards creating a "right to health;" economic, political and civil rights and their relation to health and health care; reproductive rights and technologies; standards for medical research and informed consent; environmental justice; and framing the end of life as a public health or a human rights issue. This course is taught at BUSPH.

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