Two new visiting professors in global health law

From 1 December 2025 to 1 December 2026, the Groningen Centre for Health Law, the STeP Group and the TLS department welcomed two visiting professors with expertise in global health law: Tsung-Ling Lee (Taipei Medical University) and Benjamin Mason Meier (University of North Carolina).

Benjamin Meier’s interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of international law, global health, and public policy, with his research focusing on the development and implementation of rights-based approaches to health.

Working across UNC’s Department of Public Policy and the Gillings School of Global Public Health, Professor Meier has authored more than one hundred and fifty articles examining the role of human rights in shaping global health.

Beyond this scholarship, Professor Meier contributes to the development of rights-based global health policy, serving additionally as a Senior Scholar at Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, as the Past Chair of the Global Health Law Consortium, as the Founding Chair of the American Public Health Association’s Human Rights Forum, and as a consultant to international organizations, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations.

Tsung-Ling Lee is a professor of law in the Graduate Institute of Health and Biotechnology Law, Taipei Medical University in Taiwan.

Lee's primary research investigates how international and domestic legal systems interact to generate new global health norms, and support healthier societies. A secondary line of research draws on her background in human rights law to explore how international organisations and societies govern emerging technologies with transnational and intergenerational implications.

Next to her academic research, she has advised governments on public health law and policy, notably in tobacco control and international infectious disease governance. She is a full member of the Global Health Law Consortium and is admitted to the New York State Bar (2014). She served as a MOST Young Scholar Fellow from 2019 to 2024.