• PHD Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University 2009
World Area Of Focus:
• Africa 10%-24% • International 50%-74%
Languages:
• French (limited working proficiency) • Spanish (limited working proficiency)
Specialization:
Global health policy; Health services and systems regulation; law and ethics of public health research; health and human rights; international and comparative public health law; globalization, development and public policy for health; health organizations and institutions; health care reform.
Relevant Experience:
• 2015-2016 Technical Lead: CDC, Assessing Foreign Public Health Legal Landscape to Facilitate Achievement of U.S. Global Health Security Goals • 2008 Developing a Health and Human Rights Database, O'Neill Institute for
National and Global Health Law, Georgetown Law Center
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Term Professorship • 2017-2017 Brocher Foundation Visiting Researcher • 2011-2016 Professor of the Year, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina • 2011-ongoing Faculty Fellow, Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina • 2011-2011 William C. Friday Award for Excellence in Teaching • 2010-ongoing Faculty Fellow, UNC Water Institute
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
14
Relevant Courses Taught:
• PLCY 565 Global Health Policy • PLCY 570 Health & Human Rights
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Benjamin Mason Meier, Ryan Cronk, Jeanne Luh, Catarina de Albuquerque & Jamie Bartram, Monitoring the Progressive Realization of Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: Frontier Analysis as a Basis for Human Rights Accountability, Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy, Ken Conca & Erika Weinthal, eds., Oxford University Press, 2017.
• 2017 Ana S. Ayala & Benjamin Mason Meier, A Human Rights Approach to the Health Implications of Food and Nutrition Insecurity, Public Health Reviews, 38:1-22 (2017).
• 2016 Y. Tony Yang, Julia E. Painter & Benjamin Mason Meier, Coordinated Regulatory Efforts Needed to Strengthen Travel Related Immunization Requirements Against Importation of Infectious Diseases, Vaccine, 34:3921- 3922 (2016).
• 2016 Benjamin Mason Meier & Averi Chakrabarti, The Paradox of Happiness: Health & Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bhutan, Health and Human Rights, 18:193-207 (2016).
• 2016 Lance Gable, Ames Dhai, Robert Marten, Benjamin Mason Meier & Jennifer Prah Ruger, The Framework Convention on Global Health (Editorial), 9 GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE 3-6 (2015).
• 2016 Benjamin Mason Meier, Ryan Cronk, Jeanne Luh, Catarina de Albuquerque & Jamie Bartram, Monitoring the Progressive Realization of Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: Frontier Analysis as a Basis for Human Rights Accountability, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF WATER POLITICS AND POLICY (in press).
• 2016 Matthew M. Kavanagh, Jennifer Cohn, Lynette Mabote, Benjamin Mason Meier, Brian Williams, Asia Russell, Brook K. Baker & Kenly Sikwese, Evolving Human Rights and the Science of Antiretroviral Medicine, HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL (2015).
• 2016 Reilly Anne Willis & Benjamin Mason Meier, The Role of Social Media in the Local Institutionalization of Human Rights Norms, in LOCALIZING GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS: THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (Thorsten Bonacker, ed., in press).
• 2016 Benjamin Mason Meier, Adriane Gelpi, Matthew M. Kavanagh, Lisa Forman & Joseph J. Amon, Employing Human Rights Frameworks to Realize Access to an HIV Cure, 18 JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY 1-7 (2015).
• 2016 Benjamin Mason Meier & Yuna Kim, Human Rights Accountability through Treaty Bodies: Examining Human Rights Treaty Monitoring for Water and Sanitation, 26 DUKE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW 141-230 (2015).
• 2016 Jennifer Rasanathan, Benjamin Mason Meier & Kumanan Rasanathan, Opportunities for Realizing the Child’s Right to Health Under the SDGs, Health & Human Rights, September 22, 2015.
• 2016 Ryan Cronk, Jeanne Luh, Benjamin Mason Meier, and Jamie Bartram, The Global Water Performance Index, Water Institute, UNC (2015).
• 2015 Benjamin Mason Meier, Indicators for Assessing Human Rights Mainstreaming, World Health Organization (2014).
• 2015 Matthew Kavanagh, Jennifer Cohn, Lynette Mabote, Benjamin Mason Meier, Brian Williams, Asia Russell, Brook Baker & Kenly Sikwese, Evolving Human Rights to Meet the Science of Anti Retroviral Medicines, HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS (in press).
• 2015 Benjamin Mason Meier & Ana Ayala, The Pan American Health Organization & the Mainstreaming of Human Rights in Regional Health Governance, 42 JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE AND ETHICS 356-374 (2014).
• 2015 Benjamin Mason Meier, Ryan Cronk*, Jeanne Luh, Jamie Bartram & Catarina de Albuquerque, Monitoring the Progressive Realization of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: Frontier Analysis as a Basis for Human Rights Accountability, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF WATER POLITICS AND POLICY (Ken Conca and Erika Weinthal, eds., in press).
• 2015 Benjamin Mason Meier & Averi Chakrabarti*, The Paradox of Happiness: Health & Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bhutan, HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS (in press).
• 2015 Daniel Gitterman & Benjamin Mason Meier, Why Policy Matters, in PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION FOR THE CURIOUS: WHY STUDY PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION? (Kishor Vaidya, ed., The Curious Academic Publishing, 2015).
• 2015 Benjamin Mason Meier, An Agenda for Normative Policy Analysis in Global Health Governance, in LAW AND GLOBAL HEALTH: CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES, VOLUME 11 (Michael Freeman, ed., Oxford University Press: London, 2014).
• 2015 Benjamin Mason Meier & Yuna Kim*, Human Rights Accountability Through Treaty Bodies: Examining Human Rights Treaty Monitoring for Water and Sanitation, DUKE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (in press).
• 2015 Ryan Cronk*, Jeanne Luh, Benjamin Mason Meier, and Jamie Bartram, The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Performance Index (2015).
• 2015 Book Chapters
• 2014 Lance Gable & Benjamin Mason Meier, Complementarity in Public Health Systems: Using Redundancy as a Tool of Public Health Governance, 22 ANNALS OF HEALTH LAW 224-245 (2013).
• 2014 Urooj Amjad, Georgia Kayser & Benjamin Mason Meier, Workshop Synthesis Report: Human Rights-Based Indicators Regarding Non-Discrimination and Equity in Access to Water and Sanitation, 4 JOURNAL OF WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE FOR DEVELOPMENT 182-187 (2013).
• 2014 Lance Gable & Benjamin Mason Meier, Global Health Rights: Employing Human Rights to Develop and Implement the Framework Convention on Global Health, 15 HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 17-31 (2013).
• 2014 Peer-Review Publications
• 2014 Benjamin Mason Meier, Georgia Kayser, Urooj Amjad, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum & Jamie Bartram, Examining the Practice of Developing Human Rights Indicators to Facilitate Accountability for the Human Right to Water and Sanitation, 6 JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICE 159-181 (2014).
• 2014 Benjamin Mason Meier & William Onzivu, The Evolution of Human Rights in World Health Organization Policy and the Future of Human Rights in Global Health Governance, 128 PUBLIC HEALTH 179-187 (2014).
• 2014 Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
• 2014 Benjamin Mason Meier, An Agenda for Normative Policy Analysis in Global Health Governance, in LAW AND GLOBAL HEALTH: CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES, VOLUME 11 (Michael Freeman, ed., Oxford University Press: London, 2014).
• 2014 Benjamin Mason Meier, The Political Evolution of Health as a Human Right: Conceptualizing Public Health under International Law, 1940s-1990s, in HEALTH RIGHTS IN GLOBAL CONTEXT: CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES (Alex Mold & David Reubi eds., Routledge: London, 2013).
• 2014 Benjamin Mason Meier, Making Health a Human Right: The World Health Organization and the United Nations Programme on Human Rights and Scientific and Technological Developments, 13 THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 195-229 (2013).
• 2014 Benjamin Mason Meier, Georgia Lyn Kayser, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Urooj Quezon Amjad, Fernanda Dalcanale & Jamie Bartram, Translating the Human Right to Water and Sanitation into Public Policy Reform, 20 SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS 120-136 (2014).
• 2012 Benjamin Mason Meier, Caitlin Pardue, and Leslie London, “Implementing community participation through legislative reform: a study of the policy framework for community participation in the Western Cape province of South Africa.” BMC International Health and Human Rights. 2012.
• 2010 Meier, Benjamin Mason. “Global Health Governance and the Contentious Politics of Human Rights: Mainstreaming the Right to Health for Public Health Advancement.” Stanford Journal of International Law. 45 (2010).
• 2009 Meier, Benjamin Mason. “The World Health Organization, Human Rights, and the Failure to Achieve Health for All.” In Global Health and Human Rights, edited by John Harrington & Maria Stuttaford, 2009.
• 2009 Jocelyn E. Getgen & Benjamin Mason Meier. “Correspondence, Ratification of Human Rights Treaties: The Beginning, Not the End.” Lancet 374 (2009): 447-448.
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