The Crisis in Health Care Internationally and The Pandemic Agreement – featuring Mr. Anand Grover, Former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

March 25 / 12:15 - 1:20 p.m. / Law School, Room 1

In his lecture, Mr. Grover will discuss the current international crises in health care and the Pandemic Agreement adopted by the 78th World Health Assembly in May 2025.

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Lunch will be provided. Please submit dietary requests eight business days prior to the program to Aican Nguyen at [email protected]. Although we will try to accommodate dietary needs, it is not guaranteed.

 

The Rights to Health and Scientific Advancement in an era of Global Anti-Science

March 26 / 12 - 1 p.m. / Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 115

 

About the Speaker(s)

Anand Grover is a human rights lawyer based in India and the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-2014). Grover is a designated Senior Advocate on the Supreme Court of India and Co-Founder of the Lawyers Collective (India) where he is Director of the HIV/AIDS Unit. The Lawyers Collective uses litigation and advocacy to promote human rights related to HIV/AIDS, LGBT persons, access to medicines, sex workers, and drug users. Grover has fought numerous high profile court cases in India relating to the repeal of law criminalizing homosexuality, cases relating to patents to make drugs, including antiretroviral and cancer drugs affordable, relating to drug use, sex work  and relating to animal rights. He was appointed the Special Public Prosecutor in the 2G government corrpution scandal, the largest public corruption case in India’s history. As UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Grover worked closely wth governments, civil society, and community groups promoting a human rights-based approach to health. He holds a BSc (Honours) from Surrey University, a PGCE from Chelsea College, London University and a LLB from Bombay University.

Co-sponsors
  • University of Chicago Law School's International Programs
  • Global Human Rights Clinic
  • International Law Society
  • Human Rights Law Society
  • Biological Sciences Division
  • Department of Medicine