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Alicia Ely Yamin is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and focuses on research within the social sciences, particularly intersecting human rights, global public health, and political science. Their work spans core fields such as sociology and political science, general health professions, political science and international relations, organizational behavior and human resource management, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their research interests include the following main topics:

  • Human Rights and Development
  • Global Security and Public Health
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak" (2020, The Lancet)
  • "Pandemic treaty needs to start with rethinking the paradigm of global health security" (2021, BMJ Global Health)
  • "Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations" (2020, The Lancet)
  • "Solidarity and universal preparedness for health after covid-19" (2021, BMJ)
  • "Step by Step in Argentina: Putting Abortion Rights into Practice" (2023, International Journal of Women's Health)

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include Roojin Habibi, Gian Luca Burci, Stéphanie Dagron, Mark Eccleston-Turner, and Lisa Forman.

Their publications frequently appear in the following venues:

  • The Lancet
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Organizations Law Review
  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Stanford University Press eBooks

In terms of book publications, Alicia Ely Yamin has authored books published by Stanford University Press eBooks and Cambridge University Press. Notable titles include When Misfortune Becomes Injustice (published in both 2020 and 2023) and Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights (2021).

Best Publications

  • The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development

    Lawrence O Gostin;John T Monahan;Jenny Kaldor;Mary DeBartolo

  • The Power of Numbers: A Critical Review of Millennium Development Goal Targets for Human Development and Human Rights

    Sakiko Fukuda-Parr;Alicia Ely Yamin;Joshua Greenstein

  • Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak.

    Roojin Habibi;Gian Luca Burci;Thana C de Campos;Danwood Chirwa

  • Litigating health rights : Can courts bring more justice to health?

    Alicia Ely Yamin;Siri Gloppen

  • How do courts set health policy? The case of the Colombian Constitutional Court.

    Alicia Ely Yamin;Oscar Parra-Vera

  • Universal Health Coverage, Priority Setting and the Human Right to Health.

    Benedict Rumbold;Rachel Baker;Octavio Ferraz;Sarah Hawkes

  • Consequences of maternal mortality on infant and child survival: a 25-year longitudinal analysis in Butajira Ethiopia (1987-2011)

    Corrina Moucheraud;Alemayehu Worku;Mitike Molla;Jocelyn E Finlay

  • Will we take suffering seriously? Reflections on what applying a human rights framework to health means and why we should care.

    Alicia Ely Yamin

  • Women’s and Children’s Health: Evidence of Impact of Human Rights

    Paul H Hunt;Flavia Bustreo;Sofia Gruskin;Asbjørn Eide

  • Beyond compassion: the central role of accountability in applying a human rights framework to health

    Alicia Ely Yamin

  • Intergenerational impacts of maternal mortality: Qualitative findings from rural Malawi

    Junior Bazile;Jonas Rigodon;Leslie Berman;Vanessa M Boulanger

  • Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue: Measuring Compliance with International Treaty Obligations

    Deborah Maine;Alicia Ely Yamin

  • Not just a tragedy: access to medications as a right under international law.

    Alicia Ely Yamin

  • Costs of Inaction on Maternal Mortality: Qualitative Evidence of the Impacts of Maternal Deaths on Living Children in Tanzania

    Alicia Ely Yamin;Vanessa M. Boulanger;Kathryn L. Falb;Kathryn L. Falb;Jane Shuma

  • The Future in the Mirror: Incorporating Strategies for the Defense and Promotion of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into the Mainstream Human Rights Agenda

    Alicia Ely Yamin

  • Impacts of maternal mortality on living children and families: A qualitative study from Butajira Ethiopia.

    Mitike Molla;Israel Mitiku;Alemayehu Worku;Alicia Ely Yamin

  • The Right to Health Under International Law and Its Relevance to the United States

    Alicia Ely Yamin

  • Suffering and powerlessness: the significance of promoting participation in rights-based approaches to health.

    Alicia Ely Yamin

  • The Power of Numbers: A critical review of MDG targets for human development and human rights

    Sakiko Fukuda-Parr;Alicia Ely Yamin

  • Embedding sexual and reproductive health and rights in a transformational development framework: lessons learned from the MDG targets and indicators

    Alicia Ely Yamin;Vanessa M Boulanger

  • Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity

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  • Defining questions: situating issues of power in the formation of a right to health under international law.

    Alicia Ely Yamin

Frequent Co-Authors

Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen
Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin Georgetown University
Gorik Ooms
Gorik Ooms Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Benjamin Mason Meier
Benjamin Mason Meier University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven J. Hoffman
Steven J. Hoffman York University
Richard Cookson
Richard Cookson University of York
Norman Daniels
Norman Daniels Harvard University
Göran Tomson
Göran Tomson Karolinska Institute
Ole Petter Ottersen
Ole Petter Ottersen University of Oslo
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh

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