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Global Health Law Research Guide

This guide is focused on international and cross-border legal regimes for addressing health law issues.

Getting Started

Public health concerns are no longer confined by geographic areas as international travel and trade easily transcend national borders. For example, pandemics, tobacco use, health care access, and non-communicable diseases (such as diabetes, obesity, and asthma), present major challenges to our world population. Global health is highly interdisciplinary in nature with legal, medical, economic, and social aspects and an evolving role for international law.

vintage vaccination poster













1964 poster from the CDC and the Alaska Division of Public Health (via Wikimedia Commons).

Update history

Revised 11/2022 (dei)
Revised 11/2020 (mms)

Links revised 9/2008 (mjr)
Revised 9/2007 (mjr)