Abstract
The field of global health law has conceptual foundations rooted in relation to both human rights and global peace and security. Yet over time, the paradigm of "global health security" has come to dominate global health law around pandemics, animated in the WHO's 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR) and the broader securitisation of health. The paradigm of global health security sits uncomfortably alongside considerations of human security and human rights, and the consequent centring of human dignity, individual rights and non-discrimination in the protection of population health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, "security" concerns have frequently far outstripped human rights considerations in state responses. This chapter explores these and other questions about global health law by tracing the development of global health law, the extent to which concepts of security and human rights have framed its development, and what COVID-19 implies about future directions in this domain.
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