Call for Nominations
The Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health & Human Rights was established in 1999 to honor Dr. Jonathan Mann and highlight the vital link between health and human rights. The award is bestowed annually to a leading practitioner in health and human rights and comes with a substantial financial reward.
The Global Health Council welcomes nominations of people whose work epitomizes Jonathan Mann’s life. Nomination Deadline: Jan. 15, 2008 Questions?Contact Dawn Carey at dcarey@globalhealth.org or(802)649-1340, ext. 2144
[...] Health & Human Rights Posted on January 9, 2008 by moattari Surprisingly Health and Human Rights as a unique field (one concept) is a young, but rapidly growing and dynamic field. When we think about public health, unconsciously we consider it as a human right, these two words had evolved parallel but it took a long time until finally this field was introduced as a unique concept. The first time that human rights were explicitly named in a public health strategy was only in the late 1980s, when people looked at rights of HIV/AIDS patients seriously. Prof. Jonathan Mann’s observations were one of the early efforts to highlight the field. Jonathan Mann’s 3 basic observations: · Human rights abuses can dramatically affect health· Health can be dramatically worsened when human rights are ignored· Health and human rights can act synergistically· Today I learned about Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health & Human Rights, the deadline for nominees is January 15th, 2008. I believe this award and the announcement around it, can help to internalize this field among health policy makers and practitioners. For more info click here. [...]