The international human rights regime faces unprecedented challenges from rising nationalism, war, and populist opposition. Assaults on health workers, the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people, and the rights-based global order threaten progress toward the global realization of the right to health.
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng will address how the right to health can be mobilized in a polycrisis environment to improve the well-being of the most marginalized and improve population health even amidst crises.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Health Policy & Politics, the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, the School of Health, and the Global Health Institute at Georgetown University.
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Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng is the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health and co-chair of the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. Mofokeng has expertise in global health equity, sexual and reproductive health rights, safe and legal abortion, comprehensive sexuality education, sex work decriminalization, advocacy training for health care professionals, and broadcasting. Formerly, Mofokeng served as commissioner for the Commission for Gender Equality in South Africa, appointed by the president of South Africa. Mofokeng earned a medical degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban and a postgraduate certificate in health economics and policy from the London School of Economics.