Currents
A map of the currents adjacent to the framing this resource develops. Not the historical figures documented in the rights pages, but the researchers, jurists, and institutions active today whose work engages the question of what an adequate physiology requires and what a right to it entails.
The map is organised along three axes.
- Nutritional and physiological science. Living researchers who document the insufficiency of the current thresholds and describe the physiological needs the ordinary framework misses.
- Right to health, academic and legal. Living jurists and institutions working on the operationalization of the right to health and the right to food.
- Structurally adjacent, not aligned. Entities whose vocabulary overlaps with the concerns of this resource but whose structural position obscures rather than serves the underlying question. Documenting them is part of the map, because the specificity of the framing appears by contrast.
Each entry has its own page, however brief. The map is deliberately built stub by stub: presence first, depth later.
Nutritional and physiological science
- Adrian F. Gombart · Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics; Principal Investigator · Linus Pauling Institute; Oregon State University
- Alice H. Lichtenstein · Senior Scientist and Director, Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory; Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy · Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University
- Andrea C. Gore · Vacek Chair of Pharmacology; Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology · University of Texas at Austin, College of Pharmacy
- Bess Dawson-Hughes · Senior Scientist; Director, Bone Metabolism Laboratory · Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University
- Douglas C. Wallace · Michael and Charles Barnett Endowed Chair in Pediatric Mitochondrial Medicine; Director · Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania
- Emily Ho · Endowed Director; Professor of Nutrition · Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University
- Frank B. Hu · Fredrick J. Stare Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition · Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- JoAnn E. Manson · Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women's Health; Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine · Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Joyce C. McCann · Research Scientist (retired) · Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute; UC Berkeley
- Katherine L. Tucker · Distinguished University Professor; Director, Center for Population Health · University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Leonardo Trasande · Jim G. Hendrick Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards · NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Manuel Franco · Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology · Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Michael Fenech · Director of Research · Genome Health Foundation, North Brighton, South Australia; formerly CSIRO Human Nutrition
- Michael Marmot · Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health; Director, UCL Institute of Health Equity · University College London
- Reinhold Vieth · Emeritus Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Laboratory Medicine · University of Toronto; Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
- Robert K. Naviaux · Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pathology · University of California San Diego; Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center
- Roger Bouillon · Emeritus Professor of Medicine · Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Simin Nikbin Meydani · Emerita Director; Professor of Nutrition and Immunology · Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University
- Walter C. Willett · Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition · Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Right to health
- Aeyal Gross · Professor of Law · Tel Aviv University; SOAS, University of London (visiting)
- Alexandra Finch · Associate · O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- Alicia Ely Yamin · Lecturer on Law; Director of the Global Health and Rights Project · Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Benjamin Mason Meier · Professor of Global Health Policy · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; O'Neill Institute (senior scholar)
- Bruce Porter · Executive Director · Social Rights Advocacy Centre, Toronto
- Carmel Shachar · Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Health Law and Policy Clinic · Harvard Law School; Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
- Christophe Golay · Senior Research Fellow; Strategic Adviser on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights · Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
- Colleen M. Flood · Dean, Faculty of Law · Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (formerly University of Ottawa)
- I. Glenn Cohen · Deputy Dean; James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center · Harvard Law School
- Joseph J. Amon · Clinical Professor; Director of Global Health · Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University
- Lawrence O. Gostin · University Professor; Director, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law · Georgetown University Law Center; WHO Collaborating Center
- Martha Jackman · Professor of Law · Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
- Michael Fakhri · UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food · University of Oregon School of Law; UN OHCHR
- Sam F. Halabi · Professor of Law; Director, Center for Transformational Health Law · Georgetown University Law Center; O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
- Sandra Liebenberg · H.F. Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law; Distinguished Professor · Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Sofia Gruskin · Professor of Preventive Medicine and of Law; Director · USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health; Keck School of Medicine and Gould School of Law, University of Southern California
- Sofía Monsalve Suárez · Secretary General · FIAN International, Heidelberg
- Steven J. Hoffman · Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair; Director, Global Strategy Lab · York University; McMaster University; Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Tlaleng Mofokeng · UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health · UN OHCHR; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University
Structurally adjacent
- Council for Responsible Nutrition · Washington, DC
- EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health · The Lancet; EAT Foundation, Oslo
- FAO — Nutrition and Food Systems Division (ESN) · Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
- GAIN — Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition · Geneva, Switzerland
- IFIC — International Food Information Council · Washington, DC
- ILSI / IAFNS · Washington, DC (IAFNS); international ILSI network
- Lancet Global Health Commission on High-Quality Health Systems · The Lancet; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Lancet Commission on Investing in Health · The Lancet
- Major U.S. Supplement Brands (Pharmavite, NOW, Nature's Bounty, GNC) · United States (multiple)
- Marion Nestle · Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, Emerita · New York University
- People's Health Movement · Coordinating hubs in Cape Town, Dhaka, Delhi
- The Power of Nutrition · London, United Kingdom
- Sight and Life Foundation · Basel, Switzerland; formerly DSM Nutritional Products
- U.S. Supplement Trade Associations (NPA, UNPA, CHPA) · Washington, DC
- United Nations World Food Programme · United Nations World Food Programme, Rome
- WHO Department of Health Financing and Economics · World Health Organization, Geneva