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Benjamin Mason Meier is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant emphasis on sociology and political science as well as health-related disciplines. The main fields of study for their work include social sciences, general health professions, organizational behavior, human resource management, infectious diseases, and finance.

Their scholarly contributions address a range of topics, including human rights and development, global security and public health, global public health policies and epidemiology, health and conflict studies, public health policies and education, viral infections and outbreak research, and healthcare systems and reforms.

Benjamin Mason Meier has published extensively, with frequent appearances in venues such as UNC Libraries, SSRN Electronic Journal, The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics, The Lancet, and BMJ Global Health.

Key recent publications include:

  • "Travel restrictions violate international law," 2020, Science
  • "Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak," 2020, The Lancet
  • "Reimagining Global Health Governance in the Age of COVID-19," 2020, American Journal of Public Health
  • "Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine," 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • "Health and human rights are inextricably linked in the COVID-19 response," 2020, BMJ Global Health

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Lawrence O. Gostin
  • Roojin Habibi
  • Sharifah Sekalala
  • Judith Bueno de Mesquita
  • Caitlin R. Williams

Best Publications

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

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

  • Autonomous vehicles: Developing a public health research agenda to frame the future of transportation policy

    Travis J. Crayton;Benjamin Mason Meier

  • A human rights approach to the health implications of food and nutrition insecurity

    Ana Ayala;Benjamin Mason Meier

  • Reimagining Global Health Governance in the Age of COVID-19

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Suerie Moon;Benjamin Mason Meier

  • Implementing an evolving human right through water and sanitation policy

    Benjamin Mason Meier;Georgia Lyn Kayser;Urooj Quezon Amjad;Jamie Bartram

  • International Protection of Persons Undergoing Medical Experimentation: Protecting the Right of Informed Consent

    Benjamin Mason Meier

  • Global Health Governance and the Contentious Politics of Human Rights: Mainstreaming the Right to Health for Public Health Advancement

    Benjamin Mason Meier

  • HEALTH AS FREEDOM: ADDRESSING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF GLOBAL HEALTH INEQUITIES THROUGH THE HUMAN RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

    Ashley M. Fox;Benjamin Mason Meier

  • Developing an Innovative Pandemic Treaty to Advance Global Health Security.

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Benjamin Mason Meier;Barbara Stocking

  • Development as Health: Employing the Collective Right to Development to Achieve the Goals of the Individual Right to Health

    Benjamin Mason Meier;Ashley M. Fox

  • Travel restrictions violate international law.

    Benjamin Mason Meier;Roojin Habibi;Y. Tony Yang

  • Advancing health rights in a globalized world: responding to globalization through a collective human right to public health.

    Benjamin Mason Meier

  • Facilitating Access to a COVID-19 Vaccine through Global Health Law.

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Safura Abdool Karim;Benjamin Mason Meier

  • The right to health must guide responses to COVID-19.

    Dainius Pūras;Judith Bueno de Mesquita;Luisa Cabal;Allan Maleche

  • Health and human rights are inextricably linked in the COVID-19 response.

    Sharifah Sekalala;Lisa Forman;Roojin Habibi;Benjamin Mason Meier

  • Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine.

    Sharifah Sekalala;Lisa Forman;Timothy Hodgson;Moses Mulumba

  • Towards universal health coverage: including undocumented migrants

    Kristine Husøy Onarheim;Andrea Melberg;Benjamin Mason Meier;Ingrid Miljeteig

  • Implementing community participation through legislative reform: a study of the policy framework for community participation in the Western Cape province of South Africa

    Benjamin Mason Meier;Caitlin Pardue;Leslie London

  • Translating the Human Right to Water and Sanitation into Public Policy Reform

    Benjamin Mason Meier;Georgia Lyn Kayser;Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum;Urooj Quezon Amjad

  • Has Global Health Law Risen to Meet the COVID-19 Challenge? Revisiting the International Health Regulations to Prepare for Future Threats

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Roojin Habibi;Benjamin Mason Meier

  • The evolution of human rights in World Health Organization policy and the future of human rights through global health governance

    B.M. Meier;W. Onzivu

  • Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations.

    Allyn L Taylor;Roojin Habibi;Gian Luca Burci;Stephanie Dagron

  • 70 years of human rights in global health: drawing on a contentious past to secure a hopeful future

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Benjamin Mason Meier;Rebekah Thomas;Veronica Magar

  • Using the COVID-19 pandemic to reimagine global health teaching in high-income countries.

    Salla Atkins;Ananya Tina Banerjee;Kathleen Bachynski;Amrita Daftary

  • Populist Nationalism Threatens Health and Human Rights in the COVID-19 Response.

    Caitlin R. Williams;Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum;Benjamin Mason Meier

  • Employing Health Rights for Global Justice: The Promise of Public Health in Response to the Insalubrious Ramifications of Globalization

    Benjamin Mason Meier

  • The Highest Attainable Standard: Advancing a Collective Human Right to Public Health

    Benjamin Mason Meier

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin Georgetown University
Kristine M. Gebbie
Kristine M. Gebbie Flinders University
Alicia Ely Yamin
Alicia Ely Yamin Harvard University
Jamie Bartram
Jamie Bartram University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gorik Ooms
Gorik Ooms Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Steven J. Hoffman
Steven J. Hoffman York University
James G. Hodge
James G. Hodge Arizona State University
Scott Burris
Scott Burris Temple University
Joseph D. Tucker
Joseph D. Tucker University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Leslie London
Leslie London University of Cape Town

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