Rights-based Approaches to Public Health

About

Elvira Beracochea MD. MPH has over 24 years of experience as an international development project manager and coach in over 30 countries in Latin America Africa Asia Eastern Europe and South Pacific. Her work centers on the right to health and ensuring the right to quality health services for every woman man and child. She is a speaker writer and consultant and founder president and CEO of MIDEGO Inc. a consulting firm that provides innovative global public health and international development solutions for reaching the Millennium development goals. She is a member of the International Human Rights Committee of the APHA.||Corey Weinstein MD CCHP has practiced medicine in California for 35 years. In 1975 he co-founded the Hering Family Health Clinic in Berkeley. In the early 1990s Dr. Weinstein began working as a correctional medical consultant and earned his Certification as a Correctional Provider from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. He is a founder of California Prison Focus a 16 year old community based human rights organization that works with prisoners in California's high security prisons. As an Emeritus Board Member of CPF he directs the Dignity for Women Prisoners Campaign. He serves as the Chair of the International Human Rights Committee of the American Public Health Association and was on the Task Force that wrote the 2003 APHA Standards for Health Services in Correctional Institutions.|Dabney Evans MPH CHES is Executive Director of the Emory University Institute of Human Rights. She received her MPH in 1998. Since that time she has served a lecturer in the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dabney teaches courses in Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Human Rights and Health and Human Rights. She is faculty advisor to two student groups: Physicians for Human Rights based in the Emory University Medical School and the International Student Association for Health and Human Rights based in the Rollins School of Public Health. In addition Dabney has served as a training instructor to more than 1000 public health practitioners from over 20 countries. Dabney was conference planning chair of the international conference Lessons Learned from Rights Based Approaches to Health which brought together more than 350 participants from 40 countries in April 2005. Currently Dabney is working on the development of two Health and Human Rights databases in collaboration with the Department of Ethics Trade Human Rights and Health Law of the World Health Organization