Gillian Macnaughton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1284475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Macnaughton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Macnaughton |
| SIGNATURE | MACNAUGHTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4715-5072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Drivers of universal health coverage in Makueni county, Kenya
All UN member States committed to realizing universal health coverage (UHC) when they included UHC as Target 3.8 in the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. However, the global commitment to UHC has not been matched with action on the ground. According to the World Health Organization, about half of the world population lacks full coverage for essential health services. To accelerate progress toward UHC, a close understanding of factors that dr…
Learning by Doing
This article describes the experience and lessons learned by graduate students and supervising faculty in piloting an action-research project aimed at realizing positive economic and social change by advancing the vision of Boston as a human rights city that was articulated in a city council resolution adopted in 2011. It details the efforts led by the graduate students in their roles as paid outreach coordinators and research assistants to resus…
Mapping perceptions of human rights and cultivating Boston as a human rights city
Human rights cities (HRCs) are local initiatives in which people learn to translate and implement international human rights norms in their local realities to advance social justice in their communities. Although locally created and guided, HRCs are also linked to an international network of cities working to advance social justice based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In April 2011, the Boston City Council adopted a resolution that…
Economic inequality and human rights impact assessments of economic reforms
For over a decade, activists and scholars have sounded alarms over the extreme and growing economic inequalities in the world. In 2020, Forbes reported that there were 2095 billionaires in the world, while the World Bank recorded that 3.5 billion people lived on less than the poverty line of $5.50 per day. Such inequalities prevent the full realisation of human rights, undermine democracy and threaten peace. Economic inequalities are not inevitab…
The Impact of SDG 3 on Health Priorities in Kenya
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Like the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDGs are global goals, which potentially risk shifting attention and resources away from national development priorities. This article is based on a qualitative study that examined whether the UN’s global health goal—SDG 3—is o…
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
For over two decades, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has taken a leading role in promoting human rights globally by building the capacity of people to claim their rights and governments to fulfill their obligations. This chapter examines the extent to which the right to health has evolved in the work of the OHCHR since 1994, drawing on archival records of OHCHR publications and initiatives, as well as interviews w…
Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World
The rise of neoliberal policy and practice simultaneous to the growing recognition of economic and social rights presents a puzzle. Can the rights to food, water, health education, decent work, social security and the benefits of science prevail against market fundamentalism? Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World is about the potential of these rights to contest the adverse impacts of neoliberal policy and practice on human wellbeing. …
Vertical inequalities
Extreme inequalities in income, wealth and social outcomes are one of the greatest human rights challenges that we face today as they threaten individual and community health, national political and economic stability and global peace. This article considers the extent to which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted on September 25, 2016, and international human rights norms are adequate to address the challenges of these extreme inequ…
Lessons learned
Currently, two billion people lack regular access to essential medicines in contradiction of their right to health under international law. With the rapid growth of intellectual property provisions in international trade agreements in recent years, governments are increasingly bound to provide stringent patent protection to pharmaceuticals, resulting in higher drug prices, which exacerbate the inaccessibility of medicines. As a result, there is a…
A Human Rights Lens on Full Employment and Decent Work in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
On September 25, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the blueprint for a global partnership for peace, development, and human rights for the period 2016 to 2030. The 2030 agenda follows on the heels of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted in 2001, which set the international development agenda for the period 2001 to 2015. This article uses a human rights lens to demonstrate tha…
Moving Theory into Practice
This article explores the development of methodologies for human rights and right to health-specific impact assessment of trade-related intellectual property rights. These methodologies seek to respond to the restrictive impact of international and bilateral trade rules on domestic and global policy options to ensure access to affordable medicines in low and middle-income countries. Methodologies for right to health-specific impact assessment are…
Human Rights Impact Assessment
Two decades ago, Lawrence Gostin and Jonathan Mann developed a methodology for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of proposed public health policies. This article looks back over the last 20 years to examine the development of HRIA in the health field and consider the progress that has been made since Gostin and Mann published their pioneering article. Health-related HRIA has advanced substantially in three ways. First, the content of the righ…
The Value of Mainstreaming Human Rights into Health Impact Assessment
Health impact assessment (HIA) is increasingly being used to predict the health and social impacts of domestic and global laws, policies and programs. In a comprehensive review of HIA practice in 2012, the authors indicated that, given the diverse range of HIA practice, there is an immediate need to reconsider the governing values and standards for HIA implementation [1]. This article responds to this call for governing values and standards for H…
Human Rights and Health Impact Assessments of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights
In recent years, there has been growing concern about the negative impact on access to affordable medicines of international trade rules, including the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and bilateral and regional free trade agreements containing “TRIPS-Plus” rights. These rules run counter to the human rights imperative to increase access to affordable medicines with deleterious im…
The State of Economic and Social Human Rights
This edited volume offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights and the crucial topic of non-discrimination, and includes an innovative section on 'meta' rights. The main chapters answer important questions about economic and social rights performance around t…
Mapping perceptions of human rights and cultivating Boston as a human rights city
Human rights cities (HRCs) are local initiatives in which people learn to translate and implement international human rights norms in their local realities to advance social justice in their communities. Although locally created and guided, HRCs are also linked to an international network of cities working to advance social justice based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In April 2011, the Boston City Council adopted a resolution that…
A Human Rights Lens on Full Employment and Decent Work in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
On September 25, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the blueprint for a global partnership for peace, development, and human rights for the period 2016 to 2030. The 2030 agenda follows on the heels of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted in 2001, which set the international development agenda for the period 2001 to 2015. This article uses a human rights lens to demonstrate tha…
Vertical inequalities
Extreme inequalities in income, wealth and social outcomes are one of the greatest human rights challenges that we face today as they threaten individual and community health, national political and economic stability and global peace. This article considers the extent to which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted on September 25, 2016, and international human rights norms are adequate to address the challenges of these extreme inequ…
Drivers of universal health coverage in Makueni county, Kenya
All UN member States committed to realizing universal health coverage (UHC) when they included UHC as Target 3.8 in the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. However, the global commitment to UHC has not been matched with action on the ground. According to the World Health Organization, about half of the world population lacks full coverage for essential health services. To accelerate progress toward UHC, a close understanding of factors that dr…
Moving Theory into Practice
This article explores the development of methodologies for human rights and right to health-specific impact assessment of trade-related intellectual property rights. These methodologies seek to respond to the restrictive impact of international and bilateral trade rules on domestic and global policy options to ensure access to affordable medicines in low and middle-income countries. Methodologies for right to health-specific impact assessment are…
Human Rights and Health Impact Assessments of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights
In recent years, there has been growing concern about the negative impact on access to affordable medicines of international trade rules, including the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and bilateral and regional free trade agreements containing “TRIPS-Plus” rights. These rules run counter to the human rights imperative to increase access to affordable medicines with deleterious im…
The State of Economic and Social Human Rights
This edited volume offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights and the crucial topic of non-discrimination, and includes an innovative section on 'meta' rights. The main chapters answer important questions about economic and social rights performance around t…
The Value of Mainstreaming Human Rights into Health Impact Assessment
Health impact assessment (HIA) is increasingly being used to predict the health and social impacts of domestic and global laws, policies and programs. In a comprehensive review of HIA practice in 2012, the authors indicated that, given the diverse range of HIA practice, there is an immediate need to reconsider the governing values and standards for HIA implementation [1]. This article responds to this call for governing values and standards for H…
Human Rights and Health Impact Assessments of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights
In recent years, there has been growing concern about the negative impact on access to affordable medicines of international trade rules, including the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and bilateral and regional free trade agreements containing “TRIPS-Plus” rights. These rules run counter to the human rights imperative to increase access to affordable medicines with deleterious im…
Moving Theory into Practice
This article explores the development of methodologies for human rights and right to health-specific impact assessment of trade-related intellectual property rights. These methodologies seek to respond to the restrictive impact of international and bilateral trade rules on domestic and global policy options to ensure access to affordable medicines in low and middle-income countries. Methodologies for right to health-specific impact assessment are…
Human Rights Impact Assessment
Two decades ago, Lawrence Gostin and Jonathan Mann developed a methodology for human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of proposed public health policies. This article looks back over the last 20 years to examine the development of HRIA in the health field and consider the progress that has been made since Gostin and Mann published their pioneering article. Health-related HRIA has advanced substantially in three ways. First, the content of the righ…
Lessons learned
Currently, two billion people lack regular access to essential medicines in contradiction of their right to health under international law. With the rapid growth of intellectual property provisions in international trade agreements in recent years, governments are increasingly bound to provide stringent patent protection to pharmaceuticals, resulting in higher drug prices, which exacerbate the inaccessibility of medicines. As a result, there is a…
A Human Rights Lens on Full Employment and Decent Work in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
On September 25, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the blueprint for a global partnership for peace, development, and human rights for the period 2016 to 2030. The 2030 agenda follows on the heels of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted in 2001, which set the international development agenda for the period 2001 to 2015. This article uses a human rights lens to demonstrate tha…
Vertical inequalities
Extreme inequalities in income, wealth and social outcomes are one of the greatest human rights challenges that we face today as they threaten individual and community health, national political and economic stability and global peace. This article considers the extent to which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted on September 25, 2016, and international human rights norms are adequate to address the challenges of these extreme inequ…
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
For over two decades, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has taken a leading role in promoting human rights globally by building the capacity of people to claim their rights and governments to fulfill their obligations. This chapter examines the extent to which the right to health has evolved in the work of the OHCHR since 1994, drawing on archival records of OHCHR publications and initiatives, as well as interviews w…
Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World
The rise of neoliberal policy and practice simultaneous to the growing recognition of economic and social rights presents a puzzle. Can the rights to food, water, health education, decent work, social security and the benefits of science prevail against market fundamentalism? Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World is about the potential of these rights to contest the adverse impacts of neoliberal policy and practice on human wellbeing. …
The Impact of SDG 3 on Health Priorities in Kenya
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Like the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDGs are global goals, which potentially risk shifting attention and resources away from national development priorities. This article is based on a qualitative study that examined whether the UN’s global health goal—SDG 3—is o…
Mapping perceptions of human rights and cultivating Boston as a human rights city
Human rights cities (HRCs) are local initiatives in which people learn to translate and implement international human rights norms in their local realities to advance social justice in their communities. Although locally created and guided, HRCs are also linked to an international network of cities working to advance social justice based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In April 2011, the Boston City Council adopted a resolution that…
Economic inequality and human rights impact assessments of economic reforms
For over a decade, activists and scholars have sounded alarms over the extreme and growing economic inequalities in the world. In 2020, Forbes reported that there were 2095 billionaires in the world, while the World Bank recorded that 3.5 billion people lived on less than the poverty line of $5.50 per day. Such inequalities prevent the full realisation of human rights, undermine democracy and threaten peace. Economic inequalities are not inevitab…
Learning by Doing
This article describes the experience and lessons learned by graduate students and supervising faculty in piloting an action-research project aimed at realizing positive economic and social change by advancing the vision of Boston as a human rights city that was articulated in a city council resolution adopted in 2011. It details the efforts led by the graduate students in their roles as paid outreach coordinators and research assistants to resus…
Drivers of universal health coverage in Makueni county, Kenya
All UN member States committed to realizing universal health coverage (UHC) when they included UHC as Target 3.8 in the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. However, the global commitment to UHC has not been matched with action on the ground. According to the World Health Organization, about half of the world population lacks full coverage for essential health services. To accelerate progress toward UHC, a close understanding of factors that dr…
Political science (13 works) · Human rights (12 works) · Human Rights and Development (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law and economics (7 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)