Toebes, Prof. Brigit

Brigit Toebes (1969) is a Professor of Health Law in a Global Context. She studied law in Utrecht, where she obtained her PhD in 1998 at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights. She subsequently worked as a legal researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, the Netherlands Council of State in The Hague, and as a lecturer in Copenhagen and at the University of Aberdeen. In 2012 she joined the Department of International Law of the University of Groningen, where she was appointed Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow in 2013. She is also a legal advisor to the World Health Organization. On the recommendation of the Board of the University of Groningen, Brigit Toebes will be the new scientific director of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health (AJSPH) as from 1 September 2022.
Toebes specializes in public international law, human rights law and health law. Her research focuses on the role that international law can play in addressing a range global health concerns. To facilitate this aim, she is involved in the design and definition of international health law, a new branch of public international law. She recently set up Global Health Law Groningen.
In 2016 she was awarded € 300,000 by the Dutch Cancer Society to investigate how legislation and policy can contribute to reducing smoking in Europe, particularly among children. In 2017 Toebes was asked to advise Dainius Pūras, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, on health sector corruption and the right to health.
Previously in the news

- Brigit Toebes new scientific director of Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health
- Is healthcare a human right? (online lecture)
- Corona: necessity knows no law?
- Prof. Brigit Toebes advises UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
- The Rights of Children to a Tobacco-free Environment
- Tobacco control legislation in The Netherlands
- The ebola crisis: challenges for global health law
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