prof. mr. dr. B.C.A. (Brigit) Toebes
Recent projects
Inaugural lecture (English)
Netherlands Ministry of Social Affairs, member of the committee on compulsory vaccination for childcare, December 2018-May 2019.
NWO, travel grant for Prof Scot Burris (Temple University, US): 'developing the justice pillar of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health', visit to Groningen from May -July 2019.
Research Handbook on Global Health Law - Edward Elgar Publishing, as co-editor together with Prof Gian Luca Burci, Graduate Institute Geneva, 2018, see here.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (SRRH): April-July 2017: advising the SRRH on health sector corruption and the right to health. Report available here .
Postdoc projects
2019-2021 - Eur 360.000 from Netherlands Lung Foundation for multidisciplinary research project into novel smoke free zones.
2016-2019- Eur 300.000 from Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) for project entitled 'The rights of children to a tobacco-free environment: a proposal for a collaborative project between Global Health Law Groningen and the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF)'.
Current PhD projects
Jorrit Westerhof - The balancing of rights - 2022-2026
Marlies Hesselman - The right to energy - finalisation in 2022
Dominique Mollet (bursary) - 2021-2025 - Child oral health - project co-funded by the EU JRF.
Meaghan Beyer (bursary) - 2018-2022- Human Rights, Trade and Food Regulation: Towards a Regulatory Framework to Combat NCDs Caused by Unhealthy Diets.
Natalie Schuck (external) - The right to mental health - 2018-2022.
David Patterson - Human rights based approaches on the interface between healthy diets and climate change
The role of law in protecting personal data protected by health apps and wearables
Dr Trix Mulder
PhD: 28 March 20022
Supervisors: Prof Jeanne Mifsud Bonnici, Prof Brigit Toebes and Prof Aline Klingenberg
The transformative potential of a vulnerability focus in basic assistance policies
Dr Veronika Flegar
PhD: October 2020
Supervisors: Prof Gijsbert Vonk and Prof Brigit Toebes
Gender stereotypes and the regulation of abortion
Dr Lucía Berro Pizzarossa
PhD: 20 May 2019
Supervisors: Prof Brigit Toebes and Prof Marcel Brus
Health law in Suriname
Dr Muriel Poepon
PhD: 24 January 2019
Promotores: Prof Leo Damen and Prof Brigit Toebes
The right to health as the basis for universal access to essential medicines
Dr. S. Katrina Perehudoff
PhD: 5 September 2018
Promotores: Prof. H.V. Hogerzeil and Prof. B.C.A. Toebes
Advancing the Right to Health Care in China - Towards Accountability
Dr. Yi (Eva) Zhang, 2014-2018
PhD: 28 May 2018 (cum laude)
Promotores: Prof. B.C.A. Toebes and Prof. M.M.C.A. Brus
Practical Applications of the Flexibilities of the Agreement on trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (text see here)
Dr. Ellen 't Hoen, 2016-2018
PhD: 9 April 2018 (cum laude)
Promotores: Prof H.V. Hogerzeil and Prof. B.C.A. Toebes
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