Alicia Ely Yamin

Joseph H. Flom Global Health and Human Rights Fellow 2007-09

ayamin@law.harvard.edu
23 Everett St., Room 313
Office: 617-384-5476

Joining the initiative in September of 2007, Ms. Yamin is an instructor in Law & Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Executive Editor of Health and Human Rights. Prior to her fellowship, she was director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights. She has been a leader in the conceptualization of rights-based approaches to health, authoring dozens of articles and conducting ground-breaking fieldwork. Ms. Yamin received both her JD and her MPH from Harvard University. In her fellowship researcg she is exploring the defining dimensions of rights-based approaches to health, including possibilities for, and challenges to establishing accountability for violations and progress.

Bibliography

Recent Articles

Políticas de Salud y Salud Politizada? Un análisis de las políticas de salud sexual y reproductiva desde la perspectiva de la ética médica, la calidad de atención y los derechos humanos (Health Policies and Politicized Health?: An Analysis of Reproductive and Sexual Health Policies in Peru from the Perspectives of Medical Ethics, Quality of Care and Human Rights)
Cadernos de Saúde Pública 2008; 24(1): 7-15 (with J. Miranda)

Frameworks for Understanding Dilemmas of Health Care in a Globalised World: A Case Study of Reproductive Health Policies in Peru.
Politics and Ethics Review 2005;1(2):177-187(with J. Miranda)

"The Future in the Mirror: Constructing and De-Constructing Strategies for the Defense and Promotion of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights," Human Rights Quarterly 2005; 27(3): 1200-1244.

"The Right to Health under International Law and its Relevance to the United States."
American Journal of Public Health, 2005; 95(7):1156-61.

"Promising but Elusive Engagements: Combining Public Health and Human Rights to Promote Women's Well-being." Health and Human Rights, 2005; 8(1): 62-92.

"Out of the Shadows: Using Human Rights Approaches to Secure Dignity and Well-being for People with Mental Disabilities." with Rosenthal, E., PLoS Medicine, 2005; 2(4): 102-1 04 available at www.PLOSmedicine.org.

"Not Just a Tragedy: Access to Medications as a Right under International Law."
Boston University Intl Law Journal, 2003; 21: 325-371.

"Challenges and Possibilites for Innovative Praxis in Health and Human Rights: Reflections from Peru"
Health and Human Rights, 20026:1, 35-62

"Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue: Measuring Compliance with International Treaty Obligations"
Human Rights Quarterly 21 (1999) 563-607

Recent Books, Human Rights Reports, and Book Chapters

Deadly Delays: Maternal Mortality in Peru. A Rights-Based Approach to Safe Motherhood.

The Right to Health in

Comparative Perspective

U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home

Reviews, Notes, and Published Background/Working Pavers

Review Essay of: L. Gable et al, "Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform"

"Journeys toward the Splendid City,

Recent Presentations

Presentation on “What does a Right to Health Mean and Why Should We Care?” Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA. February 2008
Presentation on “Deadly Delays; Systemic Injustice: Exploring the Added Value of a Rights-Based Approach to Safe Motherhood.” Boston University School of Public Health. Boston, MA. January 2008
Panel Presentation on “The Role of Social Rights Litigation in Dis-entrenching Institutions.” Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Regional Seminar for Supreme Court Justices and Federal Judges on the Enforceability of Economic and Social Rights. Santiago, Chile. December 2007
Panel Presentation on "What Does A Career in Health and Human Rights Look Like? New England School of Law, November 2007
Presentation on “Deadly Delays; Systemic Injustice: A Case Study in Applying Human Rights-Based Approaches to Health,” Harvard School of Public Health. Boston, MA. November 2007
Panel Presentation on “Applying Rights-Based Approaches to Maternal Mortality: A Case Study from Peru.” American Public Health Association. Washington, DC. November 2007
Presentation on “Holding Governments Accountable for Right to Health Obligations.” Harvard Law School. Cambridge, MA. October 2007
Presentation on “Addressing Maternal Mortality in Peru as an Urgent Human Rights Imperative,” Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Cambridge, MA. May 2006
Panel Presentation on “Conspiring Inequities: Maternal Mortality and the Right to Health in the Peruvian Andes.” Amnesty International Annual General Meeting. Milwaukee, WI. March 2007
Lecture on “The Implications of Rights- based Approaches for Health Policymaking.” University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. March 2007
Panel Presentation on Poverty and Human Rights. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. United Nations. New York. December 2006
Panel presentation on "Opportunities and challenges for using indicators to monitor the right to health." American Public Health Association 134" Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2006
Panel presentation on "Chronic conflict and the right to health." American Public Health Association 134" Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2006
Panel presentation on "Exploring Careers in International Health." American Public Health Association 134" Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2006
Panel presentation on "Applying rights-based approaches to health in situations of low-intensity conflict to build peace: A case study from Chiapas, Mexico." American Public Health Association 134" Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2006
Lecture on "Making the Link between Health and Human Rights," 2006 PHR National Student Conference. Boston, MA. November 2006

Professional Affiliations and Memberships

2007 - present

Co-Chair, International Human Rights Committee, Boston Bar Association

2004 - present

Member, Board of Directors, Mental Disability Rights International, USA
Member, Advisory Board, Program on Human Rights, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

2003 - present

Member, Advisory Board, Observatory on the Right to Health, Lima, Peru

2002 - present

Vice-president, Board of Directors, Center for Economic and Social Rights, USA/Spain
Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH), USA
Member, Advisory Board, MINGAPeni. Lima/Iquitos, Peru

2002 - 2005

Member, Advisory Council, Physicians for Human Rights, USA

1999 - present

Member, Advisory Board, EDHUCASalud ("Educacion en Derechos
Humanos con Aplicacion en Salud" or Education in Human Rights with Applications in Health) Lima, Peru.

1999 - 2002

Member, Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1997 - present

Member, American Public Health Association
Member, International Society for Health and Human Rights

1996 - 2001

Member, Board of Directors, Physicians for Human Rights

1992 - present

Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
(1998-99 International Human Rights Committee)

Education

Harvard School of Public Health, M.P.H., Law and Public Health, 1996

Samdperil Health Law Essay Award (1996);
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Health & Human Rights Essay Award (1996)

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1991

Executive Editor, Harvard Human Rights Journal;
Echoing Green Public Service Fellowship (1991-93);
Andres Public Interest Grant (1989)

Harvard College, A.B. , summa cum laude, 1987

Sociology and Latin American Literature
Phi Beta Kappa (1987);
Certificate of Achievement in Latin American Studies;
John Harvard Scholarship (1985-87);
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarship (1984-87)

Previous Experience

2005 - 2007

Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights

2003 - 2005

Consultant on Health, Development and Human Rights Issues, with a focus on Latin America
Instructor, Law and Public Health Program Harvard School of Public Health

1996 - 2002

Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health and Staff Attorney, Law and Policy Project Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University (Calderone Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty (2001-02)

1999 - 2002

Field-work assignment for Law and Policy Project (Lima, Peru)
Founding member, Program on Human Rights in Health, Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH, Association for Human Rights) Lima, Peru

Jan. - Mar. 1995

Consultant (leave of absence from Cleary, Gottlieb)
Kabliji Hospital and Rural Health Centre
Ghamroj, Haryana, India

1993 - 1995

Associate (3rd -5th year) Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
New York, New York

1992 - 1993

Visiting Scholar and Professor
Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History
Department of Social Anthropology
Mexico City, Mexico

1991 - 1993

Founding Member, Department of Human Rights of the Archdiocese of Mexico City, Mexico


	Alicia Ely Yamin Joseph H. Flom Global Health and Human Rights Fellow 2007-09 ayamin@law.harvard.edu 23 Everett St., Room 313 Office: 617-384-5476 Joining the initiative in September of 2007, Ms. Yamin is an instructor in Law & Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Executive Editor of Health and Human Rights. Prior to her fellowship, she was director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights. She has been a leader in the conceptualization of rights-based approaches to health, authoring dozens of articles and conducting ground-breaking fieldwork. Ms. Yamin received both her JD and her MPH from Harvard University. In her fellowship researcg she is exploring the defining dimensions of rights-based approaches to health, including possibilities for, and challenges to establishing accountability for violations and progress. Bibliography Recent Articles Políticas de Salud y Salud Politizada? Un análisis de las políticas de salud sexual y reproductiva desde la perspectiva de la ética médica, la calidad de atención y los derechos humanos (Health Policies and Politicized Health?: An Analysis of Reproductive and Sexual Health Policies in Peru from the Perspectives of Medical Ethics, Quality of Care and Human Rights) Cadernos de Saúde Pública 2008; 24(1): 7-15 (with J. Miranda) Frameworks for Understanding Dilemmas of Health Care in a Globalised World: A Case Study of Reproductive Health Policies in Peru. Politics and Ethics Review 2005;1(2):177-187(with J. Miranda) "The Future in the Mirror: Constructing and De-Constructing Strategies for the Defense and Promotion of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights," Human Rights Quarterly 2005; 27(3): 1200-1244. "The Right to Health under International Law and its Relevance to the United States." American Journal of Public Health, 2005; 95(7):1156-61. "Promising but Elusive Engagements: Combining Public Health and Human Rights to Promote Women's Well-being." Health and Human Rights, 2005; 8(1): 62-92. "Out of the Shadows: Using Human Rights Approaches to Secure Dignity and Well-being for People with Mental Disabilities." with Rosenthal, E., PLoS Medicine, 2005; 2(4): 102-1 04 available at www.PLOSmedicine.org. "Not Just a Tragedy: Access to Medications as a Right under International Law." Boston University Intl Law Journal, 2003; 21: 325-371. "Challenges and Possibilites for Innovative Praxis in Health and Human Rights: Reflections from Peru" Health and Human Rights, 20026:1, 35-62 "Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue: Measuring Compliance with International Treaty Obligations" Human Rights Quarterly 21 (1999) 563-607 Recent Books, Human Rights Reports, and Book Chapters Deadly Delays: Maternal Mortality in Peru. A Rights-Based Approach to Safe Motherhood. Physicians for Human Rights; Cambridge, MA: 2007. “Entrenched Inequity: Health Care in the United States,” in S. Marks, ed The Right to Health in Comparative Perspective. Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center Series on Health and Human Rights, Harvard University Press; Cambridge, MA: Forthcoming 2008. “Beyond Bearing Witness; Health and Human Rights in Latin America,” in AE Birn, and TM Brown, eds., U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home (Rutgers University Press; New York: Forthcoming 2008). "Abramos las puertas: Introduccion," ("Let's Open the Doors: Introduction"), in Yamin, AE ed. Los derechos economicos, sociales y culturales en America Latina: Del invento a la herramienta (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Latin America: From Ideals to Tools '7). Mexico City, Mexico: Plaza y Valdks Editores, forthcoming 2006. "Learning to Dance: Bringing the Fields of Human Rights and Public Health Together to Promote Women's Well-Being," in Yamin, AE ed. Learning to Dance: Case Studies on Advancing Women's Reproductive Health and Well-Being from the Perspectives of Public Health and Human Rights. Cambridge, MA: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center Series on Health and Human Rights, Harvard University Press; 2005. "Embodying Shadows: Tracing the Contours of Women's Rights to Health," in Gordon, N., ed. From the Margin of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, New York: Lexington Books; 2004. pp. 223-257. Reviews, Notes, and Published Background/Working Pavers Review Essay of: L. Gable et al, "Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform" (World Bank, 2007) New England Journal of Medicine 358;6 652-653 "Journeys toward the Splendid City," Review Essay of: Paul Farmer, Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor (California, 2003) Human Rights Quarterly 2004; 26: 519-38. Review Essay of Tara Melish, "Promoting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Inter- American System:A Manual for Presenting Claims" (Yale, 2003) Human Rights Quarterly. 2003; 25: 1154-1 167. Recent Presentations Presentation on “What does a Right to Health Mean and Why Should We Care?” Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA. February 2008 Presentation on “Deadly Delays; Systemic Injustice: Exploring the Added Value of a Rights-Based Approach to Safe Motherhood.” Boston University School of Public Health. Boston, MA. January 2008 Panel Presentation on “The Role of Social Rights Litigation in Dis-entrenching Institutions.” Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Regional Seminar for Supreme Court Justices and Federal Judges on the Enforceability of Economic and Social Rights. Santiago, Chile. December 2007 Panel Presentation on "What Does A Career in Health and Human Rights Look Like? New England School of Law, November 2007 Presentation on “Deadly Delays; Systemic Injustice: A Case Study in Applying Human Rights-Based Approaches to Health,” Harvard School of Public Health. Boston, MA. November 2007 Panel Presentation on “Applying Rights-Based Approaches to Maternal Mortality: A Case Study from Peru.” American Public Health Association. Washington, DC. November 2007 Presentation on “Holding Governments Accountable for Right to Health Obligations.” Harvard Law School. Cambridge, MA. October 2007 Presentation on “Addressing Maternal Mortality in Peru as an Urgent Human Rights Imperative,” Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Cambridge, MA. May 2006 Panel Presentation on “Conspiring Inequities: Maternal Mortality and the Right to Health in the Peruvian Andes.” Amnesty International Annual General Meeting. Milwaukee, WI. March 2007 Lecture on “The Implications of Rights- based Approaches for Health Policymaking.” University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. March 2007 Panel Presentation on Poverty and Human Rights. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. United Nations. New York. December 2006 Panel presentation on "Opportunities and challenges for using indicators to monitor the right to health." American Public Health Association 134" Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2006 Panel presentation on "Chronic conflict and the right to health." American Public Health Association 134" Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2006 Panel presentation on "Exploring Careers in International Health." American Public Health Association 134" Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2006 Panel presentation on "Applying rights-based approaches to health in situations of low-intensity conflict to build peace: A case study from Chiapas, Mexico." American Public Health Association 134" Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 2006 Lecture on "Making the Link between Health and Human Rights," 2006 PHR National Student Conference. Boston, MA. November 2006 Professional Affiliations and Memberships 2007 - present Co-Chair, International Human Rights Committee, Boston Bar Association 2004 - present Member, Board of Directors, Mental Disability Rights International, USA Member, Advisory Board, Program on Human Rights, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru 2003 - present Member, Advisory Board, Observatory on the Right to Health, Lima, Peru 2002 - present Vice-president, Board of Directors, Center for Economic and Social Rights, USA/Spain Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH), USA Member, Advisory Board, MINGAPeni. Lima/Iquitos, Peru 2002 - 2005 Member, Advisory Council, Physicians for Human Rights, USA 1999 - present Member, Advisory Board, EDHUCASalud ("Educacion en Derechos Humanos con Aplicacion en Salud" or Education in Human Rights with Applications in Health) Lima, Peru. 1999 - 2002 Member, Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1997 - present Member, American Public Health Association Member, International Society for Health and Human Rights 1996 - 2001 Member, Board of Directors, Physicians for Human Rights 1992 - present Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1998-99 International Human Rights Committee) Education Harvard School of Public Health, M.P.H., Law and Public Health, 1996 Samdperil Health Law Essay Award (1996); Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Health & Human Rights Essay Award (1996) Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1991 Executive Editor, Harvard Human Rights Journal; Echoing Green Public Service Fellowship (1991-93); Andres Public Interest Grant (1989) Harvard College, A.B. , summa cum laude, 1987 Sociology and Latin American Literature Phi Beta Kappa (1987); Certificate of Achievement in Latin American Studies; John Harvard Scholarship (1985-87); Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarship (1984-87) Previous Experience 2005 - 2007 Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights 2003 - 2005 Consultant on Health, Development and Human Rights Issues, with a focus on Latin America Instructor, Law and Public Health Program Harvard School of Public Health 1996 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health and Staff Attorney, Law and Policy Project Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University (Calderone Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty (2001-02) 1999 - 2002 Field-work assignment for Law and Policy Project (Lima, Peru) Founding member, Program on Human Rights in Health, Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH, Association for Human Rights) Lima, Peru Jan. - Mar. 1995 Consultant (leave of absence from Cleary, Gottlieb) Kabliji Hospital and Rural Health Centre Ghamroj, Haryana, India 1993 - 1995 Associate (3rd -5th year) Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton New York, New York 1992 - 1993 Visiting Scholar and Professor Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History Department of Social Anthropology Mexico City, Mexico 1991 - 1993 Founding Member, Department of Human Rights of the Archdiocese of Mexico City, Mexico "Applying a human rights framework to the world's most urgent health problems has the potential to transform how we understand them and, in turn, what we do about them." Alicia Yamin GHHRI Fellow 2007-2009

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