Digital health and (in)justice? human rights and healthcare in Asia

1. Explore the normative and practical advantages of human rights-based appraoch to digitalization of healthcare may offer in contributing to substantive equity, fairness, and good governance
2. Identify the tension between public health and digitialization of healthcare in the context of ASEAN and the extent to which the tension can be reconciled within human rights framework and the limitations herein.
3. Map the contour of various regulatory initiatives underway in ASEAN in the context of healthcare services and deliveries 
4. Specifically, to identify and critically evaluate a human rights-based approach in advancing and promoting a culture of responsibility that guide the private sector and providers of digital health services 
5. Critically assess the extent to which human rights based approach promotes public participation and deliberation 
6. Make practical suggestions for ways to harmonize regulatory initatives in ASEAN and facilitate international cooperation while by reference to the right to health 
7. Make recommendations on governing mechanisms which are more inclusive of non-state actors and how to achieve flexible partnership agreements based on human rights principles 

Gene drives in the Global Age: Dual uses and the Rule of Law

1. To explore the normative and practical advantages the rule of law approach may offer in contributing to integrating security and public health and monitoring science for biosecurity.
2. To identify the tension between public health and biosecurity in the context of DURC and the extent to which the tension can be reconciled within the rule of law framework.
3. Specifically, to identify and critically evaluate the rule of law approach in advancing and promoting a culture of responsibility within the scientific community.
4. To critically assess the extent to which the rule of law approach promotes public participation and deliberation without comprising biosecurity
5. To make practical suggestions for ways to harmonize national biosecurity regulations and practices and facilitate international cooperation by referencing the Biological Weapons Convention and the International Health Regulations.
6. To make recommendations on governing mechanisms which are more inclusive of non-state actors and how to achieve flexible partnership agreements