Lisa FormanĀ is a South African human rights lawyer and international human rights law scholar whose research explores the contribution of the right to health in international law to remediating global health inequities. Since August 2009, she has been the Lupina assistant professor in global health and human rights at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and Director of the Comparative Program on Health and Society (CPHS) at the Munk School of Global Affairs, both at the University of Toronto. Lisa has a BA and LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand, an MA in human rights studies from Columbia University, and a Doctorate in Juridical Studies in international human rights law and health from the University of Toronto. Her current research focuses on the strengthening of the concept of the minimum core concept within the international human right to health, and the development of post-2015 rights-based health development goals.

Lisa Forman
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