The International Legal Framework of Infection Control Law (“Völkerrechtliche Grundlagen des Infektionsschutzrechts”), in: St. Huster / Th. Kingreen (eds.), Handbuch Infektionsschutzrecht, Beck, München, 2nd. ed. 2023, ch. 3 (together with Laura Kreft). Many infectious diseases can only be effectively combated if there is close cooperation between the countries concerned. The legal foundations of international cooperation in this area of health policy, in particular the relevant regulations of the World Health Organization (WHO), are presented in this chapter of the Handbook on Infection Control Law.

The Human Rights Framework for Establishing Social Protection Floors and Achieving Universal Health Coverage, in: M. Kaltenborn / M. Krajewski / H. Kuhn (eds.), Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2020  open acces In its General Comment No. 14, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has specified the contents of the right to health. The main challenges associated with the implementation of this human right have been addressed in several major international policy initiatives and global partnerships: The 2030 Agenda now makes an important contribution to the concretization of the right to health, because it expressly obliges the international community to ensure universal health protection. The extra-territorial obligations deriving from this human right are also taken up by the 2030 Agenda.

Public Private Partnerships as Global Health Law Actors (“Public Private Partnerships als Akteure des globalen Gesundheitsrechts”, M. Kaltenborn / N.‐A. Reit‐Born, in: Archiv des Völkerrechts, vol. 57 [2019], pp. 53-82). International health policy today is no longer shaped solely by international organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank, but increasingly also by the involvement of international non-governmental organisations, philanthropic foundations and transnational corporations active in the health sector. These actors often also work together at institutional level in the form of public private partnerships (PPPs); well-known examples include the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI). Such global health partnerships, like international organisations, are at least indirectly obliged – via the governments involved in them – to respect human rights. This means, above all, that they must observe the global standards developed for the right to health and generally also adhere to the requirements resulting from the rights-based approach to development. It is important, for example, that instruments are provided to ensure the appropriate participation of the affected population groups in the conception and implementation of the respective health projects. In global partnerships, the representatives of civil society are often already integrated into the body structure (e.g. through a seat and voting right on the board), but some PPPs, such as the Global Fund, have also set up specific procedures to improve their human rights compliance.

Global Health Law (“Globales Gesundheitsrecht”, M. Kaltenborn / D. Tröppner, in: JuristenZeitung [JZ] 2017, pp. 745-754). Despite its far-reaching political significance, global health law has so far received little attention in Germany. The article provides an overview of the legal sources and institutions in this field of law and describes the links to other subsystems of international law such as human rights law, economic law and international development law. Recent considerations on a stronger systematisation of global health law on the basis of a Global Health Framework Convention are also presented.