Lawrence O. Gostin
Global Editor at JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
Director @ONeillInstitute; O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law @GeorgetownLaw; Director @WHO Center on Global Health Law; Global Editor @JAMA_current; @theNASEM
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2 weeks ago |
jamanetwork.com | Lawrence O. Gostin
On May 27, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced in a 58-second video on the platform X (formerly Twitter) that he is rescinding the recommendation for COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children aged 6 months to 17 years and pregnant women.
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2 weeks ago |
ajph.aphapublications.org | Lawrence O. Gostin
In reading this deeply moving, yet disturbing, article about the ongoing environmental destruction of Gaza, I could easily catalog all the violations of international human rights and humanitarian law—sacred and binding norms applicable to every nation: The human rights to health, a clean environment, and to life itself. The Geneva Conventions prohibit the targeting of civilians and their essential infrastructures, as well as health personnel and facilities.
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1 month ago |
jamanetwork.com | Lawrence O. Gostin
The WHO Pandemic Agreement: The World Together Equitably On May 20, 2025, the World Health Assembly (WHA; the decision-making body of the World Health Organization [WHO]) adopted a historic Pandemic Agreement—propelled by the failures of global solidarity during COVID-19.
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1 month ago |
menshealth.com | Lawrence O. Gostin
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again Commission’s first report came out today, focusing on the causes of chronic disease in children in the US. Of course, America should be focusing on chronic diseases, which are the leading causes of death and disability, costing $4.5 trillion in annual health care expenditures. We lag far behind peer countries in life expectancy. More than 40% of adults and 20% of children are classified as obese.
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1 month ago |
shorturl.at | Lawrence O. Gostin |Alexandra Finch
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In a radio address on July 24, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) coined the first “hundred days” as a measure of presidential effectiveness. Within 100 days, FDR had signed 99 Executive Orders and worked with Congress to pass 15 major laws to get America through the Great Depression, ranging from tackling unemployment and poverty to stabilizing the banking system, kickstarting the New Deal.
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