Please join the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law for a virtual event with Tlaleng Mofokeng, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. The discussion will focus on the findings of her recent report, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights: Challenges and Opportunities During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Date: October 22, 2021

Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. ET

Under international law, the right to sexual and reproductive health is embedded within the right to health — which has been challenged as never before by COVID-19. The panel will share their perspectives on how we must move forward beyond the COVID-19 pandemic to rebuild and strengthen our health systems for advancing sexual and reproductive health rights as part of the right to health.  

Speakers:

Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Oscar A. Cabrera, Director, Healthy Families Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law 

Katie Gottschalk, Executive Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

Matthew Kavanagh, Special Advisor to the Executive Director for Policy, Advocacy, and Knowledge, UNAIDS

Rebecca Reingold, Associate Director, Healthy Families Initiative, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law 

Viviana Waisman, President and CEO, Women’s Link Worldwide