LIVE NOW: @oneillinstitute @TheLancet have launched a groundbreaking report on how law can be used as a tool to advance the right to health. Join us for their launch event featuring @LawrenceGostin @johntmonahan @DonnaShalala @DrTedros @TimothyMONeillhttp://bit.ly/2Y21xYR
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"The core idea of
@oneillinstitute is looking at fundamental questions and thinking of how to use the law to address those issues, and those challenges are particularly important with law and health." -@GeorgetownLaw Dean William Treanor@oneillinstitutepic.twitter.com/YCXqocnVmh
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"The guiding principle on our institute is that there is an underutilized capacity of the law to influence all the missions of
#globalhealth." -@TimothyMONeill@oneillinstitute@TheLancet#LancetGlobalHealthLaw. WATCH: http://bit.ly/2Y21xYR pic.twitter.com/yyX2Q6No3S
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What does law have to do with health? Everything, says
@LawrenceGostin. Medicine is a lifesaver, with it, a doctor can save one life. "But a good law with justice can save millions of lives."#LancetGlobalHealthLaw http://bit.ly/2Y21xYR pic.twitter.com/3DfixMNZD9
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"Law is a powerful tool and our Lancet commission has demonstrated it so we can make health, safety and justice the healthier and fairer choice. The easy choice. We begin this day by launching The Lancet Commission on Health and The Law." -
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"Robust legal frameworks are critical to steering the global health agenda in the right direction."
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"With (legal frameworks) we can organize systems, protect rights, we can ensure access to services of quality. We can manage public health risks and address the social determinants of health." -
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"Every aspect of our lives are affected by a legal framework or regulatory framework." Laws we put in place to protect worker's safety, control infectious disease, and regulations of family planning are great advancements in public health. -
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"We are at a crossroads now... in which we are going to see whether health care is a fundamental right and whether the people that lead the world's nations have the political will to step up and to take that and deliver for their people." -
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Next up, "Global Health: Law as a Tool to Save Lives." Watch the full day of #LancetGlobalHealthLaw via livestream here: http://bit.ly/2Y21xYR @oneillinstitute @TheLancet
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