Chair, Health law in a global context, Faculty of Law, and scientific director, Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health - University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Joined February 2015
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Our new master track health and technology law is up and running. Consider joining us next year in Groningen if you want an exciting and interesting program that prepares you for the legal health questions of the future
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Our members @brigittoebes (as chairperson) and Willemijn Krugers Dagneaux where involved in the process of drafting a report on #MDMA , in which the Dutch State Commission maps out the historical, legal, policy-related, public health science and therapeutic aspects of MDMA:
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JGHL welcomes submissions that analyze aspects of global health governance, including new developments and assessments of existing treaties and governance mechanisms. Click here to find out more information on how to submit an article createsend.com/t/r-88230EC8C…
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Around two billion adults and children have untreated carious lesions in their permanent teeth.
A focus on rights can help improve children’s oral health globally, say Dominique Mollet, @greig_d_taylor, and @brigittoebes bmj.com/content/386/bmj-2024…
A right to health-based approach to dental caries: towards a comprehensive control strategy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3856…
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Dutch politics want an end to the influx of internationals and fewer English-language programs. It leads to uneasiness among many internationals. And also with UG boss Jouke de Vries. Because we desperately need them, he states in an interview with UKrant. ukrant.nl/magazine/interview…
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Dutch universities slam ‘ridiculous’ proposal to cap foreign students theguardian.com/world/2023/n…
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Thinking about pursuing an LLM next year? If so, then be sure to join our (online) Masters Week, which takes place from November 20th to 24th. There will be (live) online presentations for each of our specialized LLM programmes: rug.nl/education/master/mast…
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Prof. Brigit Toebes van onze faculteit maakt onderdeel uit van het projectteam Interdisciplinary Tobacco Endgame Research Network (INTER-Net). Hun uiteindelijke doel is om diverse bepalende factoren van tabaksgebruik in Australië aan te pakken. rug.nl/rechten/news/archief/…
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@mppoelman spoke eloquently at #EUPHA2023 about the need for a systems approach for healthier food environments and the need to monitor the status of food environments to assess policy progress.
Late but effective breaker on climate change as a health emergency led by @regienbb at #EUPHA2023
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Global health challenges raise many complex legal questions that require the shared expertise from Health Law as well as Technology Law. At the Faculty of Law, we combine Health Law and Technology Law in research and also in education: youtube.com/watch?v=JGGA8E23…
Abortus een mensenrecht? Iedereen een recht op leven! Klopt, alleen: 1) ' iedereen' betreft niet ongeborenen; en 2) vrouwen hebben met enkele beperkingen een recht op abortus; dat is ook internationaal erkend.
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Happy #WorldMentalHealthDay!
In light of the current #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we just published a new blog series by Dominique Mollet, @NatalieAbrokwa & Elaine van Rijn: "European Commission’s Mental Health Communication Part I: Mental health under EU law". @EuropeanCommiss
Just in case: a reminder that bombarding a hospital or preventing the safe delivery of health services is a violation of international humanitarian law / the right to health papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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In cooperation with @UNITAR, our Centre is offering an online course on "#HealthProtection, #HumanitarianSettings and #InternationalLaw", starting April 2024 - help us spread the word!
More information and registration via rug.nl/business-school/execu…
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The Faculty has a new LLM in its portfolio of programmes: Health and Technology Law. In this one-year LLM programme, students obtain a profound knowledge of health law, technology law, as well as the interface between both regimes: rug.nl/rechten/news/archief/…
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Last week, we had had a meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Predictions show that if we don't discover new antimicrobials or find other ways to halt AMR, deaths related to AMR will increase immensely.
Read our blog of the meeting via the link!
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We are proudly inviting you to our two events on 5 October 2023:
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#PublicHealth Protection under #InternationalLaw: Bridging the Gap between #LegalRegimes
PhD Ceremony and Reception by our member Meaghan Beyer
11:00 - 13:00
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