Centre for Global Health Law
Centre for Global Health Law
The Centre for Global Health Law is an interdisciplinary hub within the Warwick Law School, dedicated to advancing research expertise at the intersection of health, law, technology and crises. We critically examine how law shapes institutional responses to contemporary health challenges across diverse contexts worldwide, from access to treatments and care to frameworks for coordinating interventions and regulating emerging digital health technologies.
We are interested in the cross-cutting legal implications and effects of healthcare infrastructures at the global and local levels. We also explore the role that law should and could play in advancing health justice, both within health systems themselves and in everyday digitally mediated interactions with health and wellness platforms. Our current work focuses on the socio-legal analysis of power, inequality and accountability within health.
The Centre is an innovative and collaborative space for researchers at all career stages to engage with diverse and critical approaches to health law, including feminist perspectives, critical data studies, post-colonial and decolonial critiques, and socio-legal studies. We welcome potential PhD students, early-career researchers or like-minded colleagues who want to collaborate on innovative projects, or just want to network. Please get in touch.
Latest
Special Issue Collection: Regulating digital health in the Global South: critical and decolonial approaches
Led by Sharifah Sekalala, Pamela Andanda and Tatenda Chatikobo, this Special Issue of the International Journal of Law in Context interrogates the ways in which digital health infrastructures, regulatory frameworks and transnational data flows are constitutive of coloniality and neoliberal capitalism.
Projects
Advancing health data justice: A comparative study of health-related data governance in Canada, Germany and the UK
A project which examines how health-related data governance in Canada, Germany, and the UK can better serve structurally marginalised communities. Through policy analysis and community engagement, it aims to advance health data justice, ensuring equitable and inclusive health outcomes
There is no app for this! Regulating the migration of health data in Africa
An interdisciplinary project which seeks to analyse the regulation and migration of health data in Sub Saharan Africa - Uganda, Kenya and South Africa.
After the end: Lived experiences and aftermaths of Diseases, Disasters and Drugs in global health
A project that aims to document diverse lived experiences of crisis endings and to articulate ethical responsibilities of global health institutions post-crisis
Data Protection Law on Healthcare in the UK and China
By conducting a comparative analysis of regulations in China and the United Kingdom, this project examines the complexities of cross-border health data transfers and aims to establish robust safeguards that uphold public health priorities and privacy rights.
Advancing rights-based access to COVID vaccines as part of universal health coverage
A project which explores critical issues of equity and human rights in global vaccine access amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
Sharifah is a Professor of Global Health Law at the University of Warwick and the Director of the Warwick Global Health Centre.
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