Dr Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor at Warwick Law School participated in a panel discussion on Monday 28th October 2019 at Chatham House. The event launched The Lancet, O’Neill Institute and Georgetown University Commission on Health and Law report The Legal Determinants of Health. Participants discussed the report’s message on the immense power of the law to advance the right to health.

Harrowing and uplifting testimonial from Sharifah Sekalala of @warwick_law - bringing a human dimension to #LancetGlobalHealthLaw - while focussing on the structural potential of #law. Look out for her work on #NCDs and #regulatory chill @sharifasekalala pic.twitter.com/OVxAmPInnM

— kent buse (@kentbuse) October 28, 2019

Participants included:

• Yasmin Batliwala, Chief Executive, A4ID
• Lady Hale of Richmond, President, The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Lawrence O Gostin, Co-Chair, The Lancet, O'Neill Institute and Georgetown Commission on Legal Determinants of Health; Chair in Global Health Law, O'Neill Institute; Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National & Global Health Law
• John Monahan, Co-Chair, The Lancet, O'Neill Institute and Georgetown Commission on Legal Determinants of Health
• Dr Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor, University of Warwick
• Baroness Tonge, Member of the House of Lords
• Rob Yates, Head, Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House
• Chair: Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet

Find out more about Sharifah's research on Global Health Law within the context of the developing world.