Global Health

Finding Legislation and Case Law

Global Health

• Global Health and Human Rights Database
• Health Laws and Universal Coverage: Health Law by Countries (WHO)
• HIV/AIDS Legislation and Policies (International Labour Organization) This collection contains hard law (legislative texts) and soft law instruments (codes of practice, guidelines, policies) dealing entirely or in part with HIV/AIDS and the world of work.
• International Digest of Health Legislation (WHO): Access to national and international health legislation created in 1999 by the World Health Organization.

Foreign Laws

• Global Legal Information Catalog

Produced by the Library of Congress, GLIN is a public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and more contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.

• Google Scholar

• Universal Human Rights Index: United Nations Document
• WorldLII: World Legal Information Institute

Finding Secondary Legal Materials

Periodical Indexes

Gateways

• Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
• Center for Law and the Public's Health Access to initiatives, projects + model laws collaborated by Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities
• Health Care and Social Law HG.org: Worldwide Legal Directories
• Research Guide on International Health Law GlobaLex
• Public Health Law Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US Department of Health and Human Services)
• WorldLII Health & Medicine

Human Rights

• HuriSearch: The Human Rights search engine HURIDOCS
• United States Military Medicine in War on Terror Prisons U. of Minnesota Human Rights Library
• Gender, Equity and Human Rights World Health Organization (WHO)
• Global Health Ethics World Health Organization (WHO)
• Health and Human Rights Amnesty International Canada
• Human Rights & Health Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
• The Center for Public Health and Human Rights Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Health and Human Rights: A Ressource Guide Open Society Institute
• Health - Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch
• Health and Human Rights Info
• International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations
• International Society for Health and Human Rights (ISHHR)
• Universal Human Rights Index: United Nations Document

Intellectual Property

• Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH) World Health Organization (WHO)
• Health Care and Intellectual Property
• Global Health and IP World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• TRIPS and public health World Trade Organization (WTO)

Patents

• Patents (Patents, Standards, and Technical Reports, McGill Library)

Multidisciplinary team

April Colosimo, Science

Eamon Duffy, Government Information

Genevieve Gore, Health

Michael David Miller, Economics and International Development