Ben Meier

International Development and Globalization
Columbia University
New York, NY



Ben has been an IGERT International Development and Globalization Fellow through Columbia University's Department of Sociomedical Sciences since 2005. He received his B.A. in Biochemistry from Cornell University, his J.D. from Cornell Law School, and his LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Cornell Law School and Universite de Paris I. His interdisciplinary research--at the intersection of law, political science, and public health--examines the insalubrious effects of neoliberal development policy on individual health status and national health systems. Through the IGERT Program in International Development and Globalization, he has been able to work with faculty and students across disciplines to understand the multifaceted pathways through which development programs can uphold or impede public health systems. He is currently writing his dissertation on the development and evolution of the human right to health, publishing various articles in the international law and public health literature, and teaching Health & Human Rights at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

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