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2013	May 18 Inter-American Commission Grants Precautionary Measures to Save the Life of Beatriz 15 O'Neill Institute Summer Program - Speakers 08 Shanghai Visiting Scholars' Presentation on "Drug Sale Management in China" 07 O'Neill Institute's Work on Global Tobacco Control Featured in Tobacco and Poverty Research Network Newsletter 02 From JAMA Forum: The Clash Between Industry and Civil Society Over Generic Drugs	Apr 30 The Power of Sharing: Rethinking the Future of Intellectual Property and Biomedical Research 26 The Incarcerated Are Too Vulnerable to Consent 23 Family Building with Donor Gametes: New Families, New Issues and International Perspectives “Please find a summary of the recent Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) Law Symposium below. The flier ...” 18 Student-Led Global Health Impact Report Card Measures Universities’ Commitment to Equitable and Accessible Biomedical Research and Development 17 Tobacco Endgame Strategies: Challenges in Ethics and Law 11 The Fourth Annual Empirical Health Law Conference at Georgetown Law 04 Airline ‘Fat Taxes’: The Dilemmas of the ‘Pay as You Weigh’ Airline Pricing Policies 03 Updating the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program for a New Era: Examining critical issues facing this major program in the domestic HIV response	Mar 29 Accountability and the FCGH at the CUGH conference “I had the honor to join two luminaries in the health and human rights world ...” 27 Recap of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Annual Conference in DC March 14 -16 Congregating Global Revulsion Against Genocides, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Health Warnings on Junk Food 20 Juan E. Méndez, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Torture, and Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Punishment Reports on Torture and Health-care Settings: The Case of Palliative Care 19 Uruguay New Abortion Law Starts Debate about Conscientious Objection 13 O'Neill Institute Co-Hosts CUGH Conference, "Tackling Urgent, Domestic, and Global Health Challenges" (March 14-16, 2013) “O'Neill Institute Co-Hosts Meeting of Global Leaders in DC March 14 -16 to Address Urgent ...” New York’s Ban on Large Sodas: Just What Common Sense Requires 07 Student Presentations from the O'Neill Institute 2012 Colloquium	Feb 27 Now Accepting Applications for The O’Neill Institute Summer Program on Non-Communicable Diseases and the Law 22 God Bless America, a Nation Founded by Men Who Could Not Foresee the Glock and the 33 Round Clip 20 Tobacco and Poverty 15 Professor Gostin Chairs and Co-Authors National Academy Report on Dangers of Fake Drugs 13 O'Neill Law Fellows - Applications Open for Fall 2013 12 Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Where are States on the 2014 Market Reforms? 09 New avenue for Litigating the Right to Health - Optional Protocol to the ICESCR comes into force “This post was written by Oscar A. Cabrera, Eric Friedman, and Brian Honermann, all from ...” 06 Our Recent Publications in Global Health Law	Jan 25 A Discussion of Global Health and PEPFAR from 2008 23 Malaria Elimination and Eradication: A Look Back at Our 2012 O’Neill Institute Colloquium 10 Welcome Back and Happy New Year! “Dear Friends and Colleagues, Welcome back and Happy New Year! In the coming weeks, in addition to ...”
2012	Dec 07 Litigation and Health Reform in Brazil: Balancing Access to Health with the Creation of a Durable and Equitable Health System “This post was written by John Thorpe and originally published on Georgetown’s Human Rights Institute ...” 04 Ending the AIDS Epidemic in the US and Abroad 03 New Article on Implementation of Obamacare and Its Implications for Global Health “This blog excerpts an article—Outlook for Obamacare—published in the Fall 2012 edition of the Cairo ...”	Nov 21 Accepting Applications for 2013-2014 O'Neill Institute Fellowship “The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law is seeking exceptionally qualified candidates to ...” 16 Ambassador Mark Dybul, O’Neill Institute Co-Director of the Global Health Law Program and Distinguished Scholar, Appointed Executive Director of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria 02 Could a Romney Administration Really Dismantle the ACA “On Day One”?	Oct 19 Professor Lawrence Gostin in JAMA Forum "How Realistic Is Romney’s Pledge to “Repeal and Replace” the Affordable Care Act?" 06 Coca-Cola Helps the Global Fund Deliver Medicines: A Look at the Ethics of Public-Private Partnerships	Aug 14 Swifter, Higher, Stronger...Fatter?: The Olympic Games and Junk Food Advertising to Children	Jul 17 PrEP News: FDA Approves First Drug for HIV Prevention “The Food and Drug Administration announced today its approval of tenofovir-emtricitabine (aka Truvada) for HIV ...” 16 Summer Conversation Series with Mónica Roa: “Women’s Rights in Latin America: Impact of Strategic Litigation” 13 Forum on the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Affordable Care Act: Implications for Health Care & Public Health 10 O'Neill Institute Briefing Paper No. 7, "The Supreme Court's Landmark Decision on the Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Reform's Ultimate Fate Remains Uncertain" 05 Ten Years Since the TAC case: A judgment that saved a million lives “Originally published on-line at Health-e News and in The Star and The Mercury newspapers By Brian Honermann and ...” 02 The ACA and the Supreme Court: What’s Next for States and the Federal Government? “This post was written by Katie Keith, Assistant Research Professor, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute ...”	Jun 30 The Supreme Court Upholds the Affordable Care Act Upheld: The Individual Mandate is a Tax. States Have a Choice Whether to Expand Medicaid “This post was written by Emily W. Parento, O’Neill Institute Research Assistant and Lawrence O. ...” 29 U.S. Supreme Court Upholds the Constitutionality of the ACA	May 17 Webcast Link: Honorable Nicola Roxon, “Why Are Plain Packs Making Big Tobacco So Angry? Australia’s World Leading Work to Combat Smoking.” “The Honorable Nicola Roxon, Attorney-General of Australia will be speaking today at Georgetown Law on ...” 10 U.S. Congressional Briefing “Cholera and the Human Right to Health in Post-Earthquake Haiti” 09 Australian Attorney-General to Present "Why Are Plain Packs Making Big Tobacco So Angry? Australia’s World Leading Work to Combat Smoking"	Apr 05 Coverage of the WTO Appellate Body Report, US - Clove Cigarettes “Yesterday, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization handed down its report in United ...” 03 Three Ominous Moments During the Affordable Care Act Severability Hearing – Could They Actually Save the Mandate? “This post was written by former O’Neill Institute Research Assistant and current Georgetown Law 2L ...” 02 HHS Releases Final Rules that Apply Affordable Care Act Provisions to College Health Plans	Mar 28 Health Care Reform Hangs in the Balance 05 Why the Affordable Care Act’s Individual Purchase Mandate is Both Constitutional and Indispensable to the Public Welfare “Florida v. HHS – a suit brought on behalf of 26 states challenging the constitutionality ...”	Feb 22 Prevention Politics—Congress Reduces Funding for Health Prevention Fund “On Feb. 17th, in an extremely shortsighted move, Congress voted to cut $5 billion from ...” 06 A Call for U.N. Accountability for Cholera in Post-Earthquake Haiti – Part IV: Capital Hill Considers Future of Cholera in Haiti “In response to the second anniversary of Haiti’s January 12, 2010 earthquake, this post is ...”	Jan 28 A Call for U.N. Accountability for Cholera in Post-Earthquake Haiti – Part III: Raising U.N. Disease Prevention Standards “In response to the second anniversary of Haiti’s January 12, 2010 earthquake, this post is ...” 13 A Call for U.N. Accountability for Cholera in Post-Earthquake Haiti Part II: The Challenge of U.N. Immunity “In response to the second anniversary of Haiti’s January 12, 2010 earthquake, this post is ...” 10 Brazil's Compulsory Pregnancy Registration Violates Women's Privacy “On Dec. 27, Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff enacted legislation, Provisional Measure (PM 557), ...” 05 A Call for U.N. Accountability for Cholera in Post-Earthquake Haiti “In response to the second anniversary of Haiti’s January 12, 2010 earthquake, this post begins ...”
2011	Dec 31 Lawsuit Offers Hope that the Plan B OTC Age Restrictions may yet be Lifted “The fight to make Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, more widely available continues despite Health ...” 16 Judge invites challenge to HHS decision that blocked access to emergency contraception “Originally posted at Hunter of Justice on December 14, 2011. The Center for Reproductive Rights ...”	Nov 23 US law and possible Palestinian WHO membership: Implications for WHO funding “This post was co-authored by Eric A. Friedman and Professor Lawrence O. Gostin. At the end ...” 22 Court Enjoins FDA Tobacco Labels	Oct 13 The Long March for Life and Dignity: Can a lesson learned in Paraguay help protect Bolivian indigenous communities in the TIPNIS? “On August 15, 2011, at least 1,000 members of indigenous communities living in the Bolivian ...” 08 A Bad News Week for Women and HIV Prevention--and What's Next “It started Wednesday, Sept. 28 when the Microbicide Trials Network—a clinical trials network funded by ...” 04 Medicaid Before the Supreme Court Today “With Starbucks Venti in hand to ease the pain of waking up at 6:00 a.m. ...” 01 Unanswered Questions of the UN Summit on Non-communicable Diseases “ The United Nation’s High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of ...”	Sep 27 After Several Other Circuits Split on the Constitutionality of Health Reform, Which Way Will the D.C. Circuit Go? “This post was authored by O’Neill Institute research assistant and second-year Georgetown University Law Center ...” 24 Hunger breeds discontent “The direct translation of an old Chinese saying is “people regard food as their heaven” ...” 14 Briefing paper on tobacco product regulation and the WTO after US - Clove Cigarettes “For those interested in matters of trade and health we have posted a briefing paper ...”	Aug 25 A debate about the international criminalization of falsification of medicines: responding to Attaran, Bate and Kendall “Neil Boister and Benn McGrady In a recent article in Journal of International Criminal Justice, we ...” 19 Peruvian Constitutional Tribunal Upholds Constitutionality of Reformed Smoke Free Law 08 Tobacco Control and International Trade in Africa 03 Drugs, Babies, Nursing Homes, Cigarettes, and Death: A Year of Health Law at the Canadian Supreme Court 01 What Does It Mean to Inform? “This post was authored by Sam Halabi, J.D., M.Phil., Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa College ...”	Jul 22 Workshop on Legal issues in Tobacco Control for Latin American Attorneys 14 Does This Outfit Make Me Look Healthy? Not just India: The EU-India trade negotiations and global drug access “This post was authored by O’Neill Institute summer research assistant Sean Dickson, JD/MPH candidate at ...” 11 The new antismoking warning labels: a necessary step in the right direction 06 The Supreme Court’s Decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health and Public Health “This post authored by O’Neill Institute Research Assistant and rising Georgetown Law 2L, Dinesh Kumar. In ...”	Jun 25 Documenting the Food Safety Crisis—Discovering “the Jungle” in China “A third-year graduate student in Shanghai launched a database of food safety incidents in China ...” 23 Looking the Other Way: Mental Health in a Nation Fixated on Healthcare “Last week, DC police forcefully entered a man’s home and fatally shot him, twice. Jean ...” 18 Promises of Progress from the High-Level AIDS Summit at UN “ At last week's high-level United Nations AIDS review, world leaders adopted a Political Declaration ...” 15 The Future of Food Safety “Food safety issues are once again in the news. A large outbreak of E. coli ...” 10 Launch of HealthLawandLigitation.com “The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) and the O'Neill Institute are pleased to announce the ...” 07 World Health Assembly 2011 Outcomes and United Nations AIDS Review Preview “Will the world’s premier health organization be able to reform itself to revive its global ...” From Science Speaks Blog: Dybul on PEPFAR “Note: The following is a re-post of the interview by John Donnelly, "Dybul on PEPFAR: ...” 01 The World Health Assembly: Reforming the WHO and Global Governance for Health “Note: An earlier version of this post, drafted by Eric A. Friedman, O'Neill Institute Law ...” Welcome to the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law's Blog! “Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law’s blog. The blog ...”