Health research

  • Sep012020

    AI’s Role in COVID-19 Poses Human Rights Risks Beyond Privacy

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    Blog written by Carmel Williams. It should come as no surprise that artificial intelligence (AI) is being positioned as significant to…

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  • Jul082020

    Policy Briefing on the Escalation of Domestic Violence During the Covid-19 Related Lockdown

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    Social distancing in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic has led to millions of families the world over being…

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  • Jun222020

    A Conversation with U.N. Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed: Covid 19 and Freedom of Belief

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    This interview first appeared in Just Security on 18 June 2020. Ryan Goodman, Just Security‘s co-editor-in-chief, recently posed a series of…

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  • May222020

    The COVID-19 Pandemic: Five urgent principles for leaving no one behind through technology

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    This post first appeared on the Universal Rights Group website. The UN Secretary General has characterised the pandemic as a…

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  • May072020

    HRBDT Team sets out Requirements for Deployment of UK Contact-Tracing App in Submission to UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights

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    The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project team, comprising experts in human rights law, surveillance and computer science from…

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  • Apr302020

    Contact-tracing Apps and Human Rights

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    This post originally appeared on the EJIL: Talk! blog. The Covid-19 pandemic engages the full spectrum of states’ human rights…

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  • Apr222020

    Right On – The Wednesday Web Chat

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    The HRBDT project is supporting a new digital initiative that aims to keep the Human Rights dialogue going during the…

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  • Jan142020

    Assessing failures of universal health coverage in a regime where the state can be held accountable- the case of Colombia

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    This blog originally appeared in Spanish on: Foco económico: un blog latinoamericano de economía y política Sonia Bhalotra (University of…

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  • Dec312019

    Investigating Opportunities and Threats to the Right to Health in a New Data-driven Economy

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    A key part of HRBDT’s research is investigation into how data analytics and AI technologies can promote and hinder human…

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  • Dec132019

    Professor Sonia Bhalotra gives keynote lecture at Swedish National Health Policy Conference

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    Professor Sonia Bhalotra gave an invited keynote lecture at the annual Swedish National Health Policy conference on 2 October 2019. The…

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