A part of the Global Health Speaker Series, presented by the Center for Global Health (http://cgh.uchicago.edu/)

Featuring:
Mihir Mankad, Legal Consultant, Lawyers Collective (India) and Andrey Rylkov Foundation (Russia)

Brian Citro, Clinical Lecturer in Law, International Human Rights Clinic, University of Chicago Law School

Mihir Mankad and Brian Citro worked in the office of Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, as Senior Research Officers from 2010 through 2012 in New Delhi, India. Together they conducted six UN country missions, authored seven UN reports submitted to the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, addressing issues ranging from drug use to health financing, and fielded hundreds of individual complaints detailing violations of the right to health around the world.

In this edition of the Global Health Speaker Series, Mihir and Brian will recall their time with the Special Rapporteur, focusing on their experiences from UN missions to Syria, Viet Nam and Azerbaijan, among others. They will identify cross-cutting themes in their work, including issues of accessibility, the participation of affected communities, and the role of vulnerable groups in global health. They will present salient aspects of several thematic reports, including those that develop a rights-based approach to drug use, occupational health, and health financing. And they will argue that an approach based on the right to health offers a unique and dynamic means through which to address problems of global health and development.

This event is free and open to the public, but seating may be limited.