What You Can Do

Help Make the Right to Health A Reality

The following are steps you can take to advance the understanding of the Right to Health in your profession and promote a Right to Health approach to global health issues:         

1.  Educate yourself and your chapter on the Right to Health

• Q&A with Helen Potts, PhD, PHR Chief Program Officer of Health Programs
• Missed opportunities: human rights and the Commission on Social Detriments of Health (pdf)
  (Paul Hunt, International Union for Promotion and Education)
• Health systems and the right to the highest attainable standard of health (pdf)
  (Paul Hunt & Gunilla Backman, University of Essex Human Rights Centre)
• Case Studies: Illustrating key elements of the Right to Health in application

2.  Educate your campus and community by initiating dialogue on the Right to Health

• Host a film and discussion about global health and the Right to Health.
• Use the discussion guide for a journal group to talk with others concerned with the Right to Health.
• Work with faculty in relevant classes to include education and discussion on the Right to Health framework.
• Host a guest speaker to discuss the application of the Right to Health in the speaker's work.
    --> Guide to planning an event
    --> Contact Danielle  (dfox [at] phrusa [dot] org) to inquire about potential presenter recommendations

3.  Take action on global health issues to advance the Right to Health

• Contact Danielle (dfox [at] phrusa [dot] org) to learn more about the current action featured in the Global Health Action Campaign.