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Members

Associate Professor International Law and Chair of GCHL. Climate change and health, international climate law; international health law, planetary health; energy poverty, human rights, Academic Lead of AJSPH on Planetary Health.
Professor, Health Law in a Global Context (in memoriam).
Visiting Professor, Global Health Law Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute of Health and Biotechnology Law, Taipei Medical University.
Lecturer and researcher on Mental Health and Disability Law. Co-supervisor in Marie-Curie Doctoral Network INTEGRATE on psychedelic therapy.
PhD candidate at University of Groningen Faculty of Law and the University of Göttingen Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. US-trained lawyer, focused on the right to health and global health law vis-à-vis One Health.
Ben Cave, MSc
PhD candidate, expertise in Health Impact Assessment and health in environmental assessment.
Thom Geertsema, LLM MSc DVM
Lawyer and veterinarian, lecturer and researcher with special interest in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), zoonoses, food safety and One Health.
Hadi Hasan
PhD candidate, researching the impact of migration status and language proficiency on newcomer's health access in the Netherlands.
PhD candidate on alcohol regulation within the intersection of national, European and international law.
Ratna Juwita, Ph.D. LLM, MH
Visiting Fellow in the TLS and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta.
PhD candidate on patient rights and lecturer in health law at UMCG.
PhD candidate in public health law (the role of law in the prevention of dental caries among children); lecturer in the area of public health law (EU and international law).
Dr. Gema Ocana, LLM
Senior Advisor in EU research affairs; health and human rights; privatisation of health care.
Lecturer and researcher on health law; PhD Candidate on a child rights-based approach to regulating harmful digital commercial marketing of unhealthy diets in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. David Patterson, PhD, LLM, MSc, HonMFPH
Climate Change and Health, President, Law and Public Health Section (EUPHA-LAW), European Public Health Association; Honorary Member, Faculty of Public Health (UK).
PhD candidate researching the impact of medical artificial intelligence on patients' fundamental rights. He has a background in technology law and international human rights law.
Johanna Meszaros, LLM
Junior Researcher; Climate and Health; Tobacco; Gender & Health.
PhD candidate at the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies. Researching youth/child-led climate litigation against States and public authorities globally, with an interest in how children/young peoples’ physical and mental health is disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis; and, how this does (or does not) distinguish them from other applicants before the Courts.
PhD candidate in Public International Law with the focus on the right to a healthy environment and jus cogens norms; National Rapporteur for the Japanese Climate Litigation at Sabin Center’s Global Network of Peer Reviewers.
PhD Candidate on novel nicotine and tobacco products (EC Joint Research Centre Ispra).
Associate Professor of Public International Law, TLS Department, Faculty of Law, UG.
PhD candidate in International and regional human rights law; decolonial approach to the right to a healthy environment; coordinator of the NNHRR WG on human rights and climate crisis.
Lecturer IT Law with an interest in the effects and role of technology on (the right to) health.
PhD candidate on the right to mental health and psychedelic treatment within the INTEGRATE project.
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