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Invited Presentations - National
 Date  Title  Event/Institution
 2007  “Global Health Law”
30th Annual Health Law Professors Conference Boston University, Boston, MA
2007
“Is AIDS Treatment a Human Right?: A Discussion About Care and Equity” 
Global AIDS Treatment Colloquium Series    Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2007
“Harvard's Impact on AIDS Prevention and Treatment in Brazil,” Conversa, Brazilian Response to AIDS Treatment and Prevention   
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2007  “HIV Counseling and Testing in the Era of Expanded Access to Care and Treatment: Questions and Controversies Shaping New Policies and Programs Around the World”
CME-accredited clinical AIDS lecture    Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
2007
“Improving Health: Contributions and Current Concerns in Doing Health and Human Rights Work”    
GlobeMed Health Summit, Northwestern University in Evanston, IL
2006
“Health and Human Rights: Bridging theory and practice,” Right to Health: Pathway to Justice and Change    
The 134th Annual APHA Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA
2006 “Using Data to Bring Together Health and Human Rights: Assessing Accountability and Promoting Program Effectiveness” Social Justice, Human Rights, and Health: from Rhetoric to Reality   
The 134th Annual APHA Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA
2006  “Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?”    
The 134th Annual APHA Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA
2006 “Writing Ethics/Writing Rights: Publishing in AJPH on Ethics and Rights in Public Health”   
The 134th Annual APHA Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA
2006
“Who & How, Not Just How Many: Using Rights-based Perspectives to Enhance ARV Scale-up,” The Social Impacts of ARV Scale-up: Developing an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda   
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York City, NY
2006 “The Relevance of a Human Rights Perspective for HIV/AIDS,” ‘I am not ashamed’ HIV and AIDS and Human Rights in the Dominica Republic and Guyana   
Amnesty International, United Nations General Assembly, High Level Meeting on AIDS. New York City, NY
2006
“Rights-based Approaches to Health: Examples from HIV/AIDS and Maternal Health,” The Right to Health: Prospects and Approaches   
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 “Health and Human Rights No Longer a Question: Moving from Concepts to Action”   
Rock Ethics Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, PA
2005
“The Role of Universities in Promoting the Right to Health” for the session: "The Role of Stakeholders in the Fulfillment of the Human Right to Health"    
APHA 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition, Philadelphia, PA
2005
“Theoretical Approaches to Health and Human Rights”   
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2005 “Measuring the Right to Health: It Depends What You’re Measuring”   
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2005 “The Right to Health: An International Construct” 
Global Health and Justice Conference    University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA
2005  “Urban Health and Human Rights: A New Paradigm?”
Seminar on Social Justice and Urban Health, School of Health Sciences    Hunter College, New York NY
2004
“Using Children’s Rights as a Framework for Advocacy: Pediatricians and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child”    
American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, CA
2004
“Health and Human Rights: Concepts and Methods for Public Health”    
Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
2004 “HIV/AIDS, Health and Human Rights” Developing a Strategic Vision for Work on Economic and Social Rights    
Joan Fitzpatrick Human Rights Conference, University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, OH
2004 “HIV/AIDS, Health and Human Rights” Developing a Strategic Vision for Work on Economic and Social Rights   
Joan Fitzpatrick Human Rights Conference, University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, OH
2004  “Health and Human Rights: Concepts and Methods for Public Health”    
Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
2004 “Frameworks of Health and Human Rights”    
University of Seattle, Seattle, WA
2004 “Health and Human Rights”   
Florida Department of Public Health Dialogue on Children’s Rights and the Health and Well Being of Children, Jacksonville, FL
2003 “Health, Development, Education and Human Rights”   Annual Meeting of World Education, Boston, MA
2003 “Health and Human Rights: From Concepts to Action,” Special Session: Ethics and Human Rights: Public Health in Action—Domestically and Abroad   
American Public Health Association 131st Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Francisco, CA
2003  “Gender, Human Rights, and HIV”    Meeting on Social Causation and Social Intervention Against HIV: What Do We Know? How Can We Use It?
National Development and Research Institutes, San Francisco, CA
2003 “HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: Global Perspectives and the Role of Amnesty International"
Amnesty International General Meeting    Amnesty International, Pittsburgh, PA
2003 “Assessing Global Health: Reflections from Health and Human Rights,” People’s Health in People’s Hands: What Works and Who Decides   
5th Annual International Health Conference, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2003 “Women’s Health and Human Rights,” People’s Health in People’s Hands: What Works and Who Decides   
5th Annual International Health Conference, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2002 “Health and Human Rights”  
Special Presentation, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA
2002
“HIV and Human Rights for Business,” Return on Responsibility: Realizing Value for Business and Society   
Business for Social Responsibility’s Annual Conference, Miami, FL
2002
“Ecosocial and Health and Human Rights Perspectives: Women and Tuberculosis”    
Museum of Science, Boston, MA
2002 “International Human Rights and the Battle against AIDS”   
Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, IL
2001  “Health, Law, and Human Rights: Different Perspectives, Common Ground and the Way Forward”   
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2001 “HIV/AIDS and Human Rights,” Formal Human Rights Roundtable   
United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, New York, NY
2001
“What’s Next?” Roundtable on Gender and HIV/AIDS   
Division for the Advancement of Women, United Nations General Assembly on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, New York, NY
2001
“A Human Rights Framework for the AIDS in Africa Crisis”   
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and The Center for International Development and the Women and Public Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Boston, MA
2001 “Advancing the Human Right to Health: Human Rights in Vulnerable Populations,”
A Global Assembly, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2001 “AIDS and Human Rights: Realities and Perceptions - Past, Present, and Future,” Addressing a Crisis in Human Rights and Development Speaker Series   
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and The Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Boston, MA
2001 “HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: From Concepts to Action”   
Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2000
“The Right to Health as it is Understood Internationally”   
The American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
2000 “Health and Human Rights in Time of Peace,” Health and Human Rights in Times of Peace and Conflict
   
 
 The Harvard School of Public Health and the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, The Harvard Club of New York City, New York, NY
2000
“Linking Health and Human Rights: Current Concepts and Methods”    
The Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Speaker Series, The Atlanta Alliance for Health and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA
1999
“HIV/AIDS, Health and Human Rights: The Legacy of Jonathan Mann (1947-1998)”    
National HIV/AIDS Update Conference, San Francisco, CA
1999 “The International Face of HIV/AIDS into the 21st Century,” HIV/AIDS and the Law: An Agenda beyond the Millennium   
An American Bar Association National Invitational Symposium, Washington, D.C.
 
 
Invited Presentations - International

Date

 Title  Event/Institution
 2007 “Globalization, Sexuality and the Market,” Dis/Organized Pleasures - Changing Bodies, Rights and Cultures The 6th International Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS), Lima, Peru
2006 “Health and Human Rights: Approaches to Research”
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 
2006 “Expanding HIV Testing: Human Rights Issues,” Controversy and Common Ground; HIV Testing in the Era of Treatment Scale Up XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006       
“Gender, HIV and Human Rights: Opportunities and Constraints in the Application of a Rights-Based Approach” panel presentation, Gender, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights – Exploring the Connections
XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006 “Human Rights & HIV/AIDS,” Journalist to Journalist, The Global Media Responds to AIDS, training on HIV/AIDS   
National Press Foundation. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006 “Measuring Developments in the Realization of the Right to Food by Means of Indicators.” Practical Implications of the IBSA Indicators.
IBSA Symposium, University of Mannheim, Germany
2005  “Engendering Health and Human Rights”   
International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations (IFHHRO), Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT) Mumbai, India
2005
“Making Health and Human Rights Real”    
University of Bahia and Catholic University of Salvador, Salvador, Brazil
2005
“Direitos Humanos em Iniciativas de Saúde Pública”   
Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2005
“The Use of Indicators Related to HIV/AIDS and Human Rights”  
Nordic Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland
2005
"Suggestions for a 'Rights-based' Approach to WHO's Work in Child and Adolescent Health"     
Department of Child and Adolescent Health, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
2004
“Human Rights Challenges in HIV/AIDS”    
Amnesty International, International Executive Committee, London, England
2004 “Applying Human Rights to Global Public Health Evaluation”    
Brazil National AIDS Program, Brasilia, Brazil
2004 “Human Rights Perspectives on HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation”    
National School of Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2004
“Integration of Human Rights in Public Health Programming”     
International Symposium on Human Rights in Public Health, Melbourne, Australia
2004 “Stigma, Discrimination and Human Rights Considerations in HIV Testing Policies”    
International Symposium on Human Rights in Public Health, Melbourne, Australia
2004
“National HIV Testing Policies: Human Rights Considerations”    
The XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
2004
“The Human Rights Imperative to Scale Up Access to HIV Treatment for IDUs and Prisoners,” Human Rights at the Margins: HIV/AIDS, Prisoners, Drug Users, and the Law satellite meeting   
The XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
2003 “Amnesty International, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights”   
Amnesty International Health Professional Network Meeting, London, England
2003
“The Enhancing Care Initiative: An Overview”
 
6th International Home and Community Care Conference for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS, Dakar, Senegal
2003  “Enhancing AIDS Care”
 
6th International Home and Community Care Conference for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS, Dakar, Senegal
2003
“Substance Use Issues of Marginalized vs. Mainstream Youth”    
The 3rd World Congress and Exposition on Child Youth and Health, Vancouver, Canada
2003 “Substance Abuse and Human Rights”   
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
2002
“Estigma, discrminación y derechos humanos”

Magisterial Plenary, Congreso Nacional Sobre VIH/SIDA e Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual, Veracruz, Mexico
2002
“Concepts and Tools of Human Rights and Epidemiology: What Relevance to Each Other?”   
XVI IEA World Congress of Epidemiology, Montreal
2001 “What is meant by a Rights-Based Approach?” Special Lunchtime Seminar in Honor of International Human Rights Day”    
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
2001
“UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS: Relevance from a Human Rights Perspective”
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2001 “The Health and Human Rights Approach: Concepts and Action”    
XVIIth World Conference on Health Promotion and Education, Paris, France
2001
“Health and Human Rights: Exploring New Dimensions”
Wilson’s Cat Seminar, International Council on Human Rights Policy, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland
1999
“The Origins and Linkages between Human Rights and Health,” Human Rights and Health: Implications for WHO   
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
1998 “Human Rights and Public Health: An Overview”   
12th World AIDS Conference Bridging the Gap, Geneva, Switzerland
1997
“Children Living in a World with AIDS: A Child’s Rights Perspective”   
UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland
1997
“What Have Public Health and Human Rights Got to Do With Each Other?”   
29th Annual Conference of the Public Health Association of Australia Inc., Melbourne, Australia