Joseph J. Amon

Clinical Professor and Director of Global Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Formerly Director of the Health and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. Editor of the Health and Human Rights Journal, the principal English-language venue for scholarship at the intersection of the two fields.

Why he matters here

The journal Amon edits is the natural first venue for a physiological rights argument seeking placement in the academic literature on health rights. His own career, moreover, models the trajectory from documentation of specific rights violations to their translation into public policy claims.