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Led by Professor Thomas Pogge, the Global Justice Program at Yale is an interdisciplinary group that works on assessment and reform of global institutional arrangements. For more information about the Program, people working in and affiliated with it, and the Projects that our fellows and affiliates are engaged in, please use the links above and below.
GJP Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwTrtGPHe8S-YHTmKf7GPUA/videos
Journal ASAP: http://www.journalasap.org/index.php/asap
Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP): http://academicsstand.org
Ambedkar Grants for Advancing Poverty Eradication (AGAPE): https://globaljustice.yale.edu/AGAPE
Incentives for Global Health (IGH): https://www.healthimpactfund.org/
Green Impact Fund for Technology (GIFT): https://globaljustice.yale.edu/green-impact-fund-technology
The Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM): https://globaljustice.yale.edu/individual-deprivation-measure
Illicit Financial Flows: https://globaljustice.yale.edu/illicit-financial-flows
Thomas Pogge: https://campuspress.yale.edu/thomaspogge/
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Time Sensitive:
Annual Global Justice Conference on Justice and Technology
To be held on November 10-13, the event will focus especially on the latest and potential uses and abuses of artificial intelligence, for example for manipulating people as consumers and as citizens – but other topics within the broader theme are also welcome. Please send ideas and proposals to yalegjp@gmail.com. The conference will also feature the awarding of the Ninth Annual Amartya Sen Essay Prizes. Ralph Nader will give a keynote address.
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Journal ASAP Awards
Starting this year, Journal ASAP will confer three annual awards for poverty-focused academic work – all with nomination deadlines of 16 October 2022.
An ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.
An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject, published in 2021 and written by a single author or group of authors.
An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best collection of poverty-related essays by different authors published in 2021.
Eligible work may contribute to the definition, description, explanation, assessment or eradication of poverty and attend to any of the special challenges poor people face in regard to nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications.
For details about nominations and selection, please click.
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A Human-Centered Approach to Health Innovations: Reconciling Intellectual Property with Human Rights
Access to health innovations should be informed by a human-centered approach that reconciles intellectual property rules and policies with human rights. Under the current intellectual property regime, innovators are entitled to patent monopolies, regulatory exclusivities and other protections that prevent especially lower-income households from accessing life-saving medical products and technologies. As the COVID-19 pandemic and other national, regional and global health exigencies show, many important vaccines, treatments, diagnostics and other health technologies remain unaffordable or inaccessible to millions of people, many of whom suffer or die as a result.
We invite activists, academics, policymakers, industry representatives, health professionals and other practitioners to contribute to an edited open-access volume advancing a human-centered approach to health innovations. By exploring how this approach can alleviate or resolve the problematic trade-offs in the health and pharmaceutical fields, we hope to enrich the human rights debate and to formulate new innovation models and practices that would better realize the right to health and other relevant human rights. We will invite selected contributors to present their draft essays at a hybrid workshop in New Haven, Connecticut, 28–30 October 2022. For full details, click here.