Issues

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp. 75 -78 PDF Shirin Heidari and Heather Doyle The notable gendered socioeconomic, health, and human rights implications of COVID-19 have sparked a renewed conversation on gender data gaps and the risks of…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 71 – 74 PDF Vinodkumar Prabhakaran and Donald Martin Jr. The pervasive digitization of health data, aided with advancements in machine learning (ML) techniques, has triggered an exponential growth in the…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp. 67 – 70 PDF Amy Dickens Health data is a valuable source of knowledge that states can use to advance or undermine the right to health. But the sources and use of health data are changing in our emerging…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 63 – 66 PDF Rajat Khosla Technology is widely known for moving fast and breaking things, to paraphrase Mark Zuckerberg. Indeed, technology is fast moving into each and every aspect of our life, especially our…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 55 -62 PDF Carmel Williams Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is being hailed by various actors, including United Nations agencies, as having the potential to alleviate poverty, reduce inequalities, and…

Volume 22/2, December 2020, pp 49 -54 PDF Louise Holly Introduction The Universal Declaration on Human Rights, adopted in 1948, proclaims that children and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. Almost four decades later, the…