The Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights

The Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights is a collaboration of interdisciplinary scholars in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. The Centre is named for the former Justice of the High Court of Australia, renowned human rights expert, advocate and defender who will maintain an active involvement in the Centre’s work and future direction. The Kirby Centre was created to consolidate and strengthen the existing capacities, developed over 20 years in the study of public health and human rights within the School. Read more

The Centre aims to

Conduct research that informs the development of public health policies and programmes in which human rights standards and norms are critically considered

Undertake teaching programmes which facilitate informed inquiry about public health, law and human rights, and

Make a practical contribution to the promotion of public health and human rights

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Patrons

Professor Ruth Macklin, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, United States of America
Professor Paul Hunt, School of Law, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Meena Saraswathi Seshu, co-founder SANGRAM, Maharashtra, India