International agreements and over a hundred national constitutions recognize a “right to health”, often defined as a claim to the “highest attainable standard of health”. So understood, several questions arise about this supposed right. Do people really have a claim on others to be helped to become as healthy as possible? Who are the agencies on which they might have such a claim (governments, corporations, international organizations)? Can this right be made consistent with limits on the available resources for health care? And how should this right be balanced against other rights, such as the right to free movement? A leading constitutional law scholar, an expert on the right to health and problems with its institutionalisation in Brazil, and two philosophers who have proposed interpretations of the right to health will debate these questions.

Speakers
• 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘇, Professor of Law, King's College London
• 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹, Reader in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, King's College London
• 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗩𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗵𝗼𝗲𝘃𝗲, Professor of Philosophy, LSE

Chair
• 𝗞𝗮𝗶 𝗠𝗼̈𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿, Professor of Law, LSE

Recorded on 10 February 2022

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