 | Calvin Ho Dr - National University of Singapore |
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01.07.2016-31.08.2016
Right to Health in terms of Access to Medicines in Universal Health Coverage
Calvin WL Ho is Assistant Professor at Centre for Biomedical Ethics of Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is Co-Head of the World Health Organization Collaborator Centre on Bioethics in Singapore, and an Ethics Board member of Médecins Sans Frontières. Calvin holds a doctorate in juridical science from Cornell University (New York), and was also trained in law at NUS and University of Cambridge. In addition, he holds degrees in sociology and economics from LSE and SOAS (University of London). Calvin’s research is essentially directed at three areas: global health law and ethics, research ethics and policy, health policy and governance. He co-edited Bioethics in Singapore: An Ethical Microcosm (2010, World Scientific), and Genetic Privacy (2013, Imperial College Press), and is the author of Juridification in Bioethics (forthcoming, Imperial College Press). At Brocher Foundation, he will examine the extent that right to health can be articulated in terms of access to medicines, which is in turn an expression of a right to resources necessary for health under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To this effect, he will be evaluating his multi-method study on national health insurance coverage of medicines conducted in five Asia-Pacific countries (i.e. China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) between 2012 and 2015. More broadly, he will examine the relationship between right to health and global justice, and consider the extent that they are complementary and mutually reinforcing.
Calvin WL Ho is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS).
He holds a doctorate in juridical science from Cornell University (New York), and was also trained in law at NUS and University of Cambridge (England). In addition, he read sociology and economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). Calvin is qualified as Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, and as Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. He has practiced law in London and Singapore, and serves as an Assistant Director with the Legal Aid Bureau (Ministry of Law). Prior to his current appointment, he was Senior Research Associate (from October 2001 to May 2011) with the Bioethics Advisory Committee, an expert body appointed by the government of Singapore to provide advice and recommendations on human biomedical research.
Calvin is also Co-Head of the World Health Organization Collaborator Centre on Bioethics in Singapore, and Co-Head of the Accountability Policy Task Team of the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health. He is an Ethics Board member of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), a member of the Medicines in Health Systems thematic working group of Health Systems Global, and has been a Research Associate with The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. In addition, Calvin is a member of the National Transplant Ethics Panel and advisory committees on genetic testing and transplantation of the Ministry of Health, and serves as a member of the Bioethics Committee of Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, and a member of the Paediatric Ethics and Advocacy Centre, National University Hospital.
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