Alicia Ely Yamin, JD, MPH, PhD

Alicia Ely Yamin, JD, MPH, PhD is a Lecturer on Law and the Director of the Global Health and Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College; her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School; her Master’s in Public Health degree from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; and her Doctorate in Law from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Yamin’s career has bridged scholarship and activism, as well as international and comparative law relating to health rights and social justice, and public health. She is recognized globally as a leader in the normative construction of the right to health under international law. Yamin’s interest in bioethics bridges legal and policy issues related to institutionalizng health-related rights, reproductive justice, priority-setting and health governance. Yamin has edited and authored over a dozen books and UN reports, as well as close to 200 articles in law, policy and public health/medical journals, in both English and Spanish, and her work has also been translated into French, Korean, Portuguese, and Estonian. She has served on numerous WHO and UN expert groups, including the WHO Task Force on Health Technology Assessments; as well as the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bergen Centre on Ethics and Priority Setting (B-CEPS).