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Members

Associate Professor and Chair of GCHL. Climate change and health, international climate law; environmental health; energy poverty, human rights; Member of AJSPH Scientific Steering Committee and Academic Lead of AJSPH on Planetary Health.
Professor, Health Law in a Global Context; Member of Managing Board.
Dr. Natalie Abrokwa, LLM
Lecturer and researcher on Mental Health.
Monique van Cauwenberghe LLM, MA.
Junior researcher and teacher, Coordinator GCHL, project on Climate Change, editor GCHL Blog and Student Blog, coordinator Global Scientific Network on Law and Tobacco (GSNLT).
Gabriel Armas-Cardona
PhD candidate and lawyer, focused on the right to health and global health law vis-à-vis One Health, and part of the We Are One project.
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 and One Health.
Hadi Hasan
PhD candidate, researching the impact of migration status and language proficiency on newcomer's health access in the Netherlands.
Tessa Jager
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.
Maurice Oduor
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.
David Patterson, LLM, MSc, HonMFPH
PhD Candidate, project on climate change.
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.
Tymen Schuurmans
PhD Candidate on novel nicotine and tobacco products (EC Joint Research Centre Ispra).
Assistant Professor of Public International Law, TLS Department, Faculty of Law, UG.
Lecturer IT Law with an interest in the effects and role of technology on (the right to) health.
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