Eric A. Friedman

Eric Friedman is a global health justice scholar in the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Friedman works to advance global health and human rights through scholarship and several initiatives. Previously, he was senior global health policy advisor at Physicians for Human Rights, focusing on the right to health, health systems, the global health worker shortage, and HIV/AIDS. That followed seven years at Yale, where Friedman received undergraduate and law degrees.

A resident and a child look out through gaps in barriers at a closed residential area during COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, China, on May 10, 2022.
Governance

Human Rights at the Center of the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Eric A. Friedman, Chelsea Clinton, Lawrence O. Gostin

Governments should integrate human rights into their pandemic responses

A blue, purple, and yellow skylight hovers above Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates his re-election during the 75th World Health Assembly at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 24, 2022.
Governance

At Long Last, Member States Agree to Fix the World Health Organization's Financing Problem

by Alexandra Finch, Kevin A. Klock, Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin

Here's what needs to happen next

Ukrainian paramedics take cover in the woods as air raid sirens go off again following an attack on the Yavoriv military base, outside a hospital in Yavoriv, Ukraine, during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on March 13, 2022.
Governance

Ukraine: A Turning Point for Attacks on Health

by Leonard S. Rubenstein, Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin

Accountability is overdue for wartime atrocities in Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Gaza, Myanmar, and now Ukraine

The headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, May 18, 2020. The photo shows the WHO HQ. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Governance

Why the WHO?

by Chelsea Clinton, Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Devi Sridhar

The World Health Organization is essential to convening scientific experts and the world’s best thinking on COVID-19