Biography
Thana joined the Von Hügel Institute as Research Associate in 2014. She is an associate professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Government, and an associate researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, where she directs the Dignity and Equity in Women’s Health Issues initiative.
Thana holds a PhD in Law from the University of Oxford and a Master's degree in International Law from the University of Sao Paulo. She published The Global Health Crisis: Ethical Responsibilities (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and co-edited Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law (Oxford University Press, 2019). Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow at the Fung Global Program, at the Institute of International and Regional Studies at Princeton University , where she developed her new book entitled The Rule of Love: Love-Based Governance for Global Health.
Research
Global bioethics, international human rights, legal theory and moral philosophy, with particular interests in Natural Law, Virtue Ethics, global health law, global health governance and the human right to health. At the VHI Thana has been working on a project focused on the definition of ill-health and well being and on end of life, disability and mental illness.
Publications
Books
- The Global Health Crisis: Ethical Responsibilities, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Transnational Corporations and Human Rights – Pharmaceutical Companies as the Object of Study (in Portuguese), Forum Press, 2012.
Edited Books
- with Andelka Phillips and Jonathan Herring (eds),The Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Selected Articles
- 2022 Global Health Governance and The Principle of Subsidiarity: In Defense of a Robust Decentralization Approach , in International Journal of Constitutional Law (with Mariana Canales). Forthcoming.
- 2021 Post-COVID-19 WHO Reform: Ethical Considerations , in Public Health Ethics , p.1-14. (published online ahead of print 2021). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phab011
- 2021 An European Take on Global Public Health: Applying the Principle of Subsidiarity to Global Health Governance , in Journal of Moral Theology , 1, 1, 141-151
- 2021 Intellectual Property Protection and Essential Medicines in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Promise of Multilateral Complementary Cooperation , in International Affairs , 97, 2, pp.523-37.
- 2021 Public Health Decisions in the COVID-19 Pandemic Require More Than “Follow The Science” , in Journal of Medical Ethics , 47, pp. 296-99 (with Eduardo Undurraga).
- 2020 The Stellenbosch Consensus on the International Legal Obligation to Collaborate and Assist in Addressing Pandemics Clarifying Article 44 of the International Health Regulations , in International Organizations Law. Review , pp.1-30 (published online ahead of print 2020). (with Margherita M. Cinà, Steven J. Hoffman, Gian Luca Burci, Danwood Chirwa, Stéphanie Dagron, et al). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15723747-2020024
- 2020 The Stellenbosch Consensus on Legal National Responses to Public Health Risks Clarifying Article 43 of the International Health Regulations, in International Organizations Law Review , pp1-68. (published online ahead of print 2020). doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15723747-2020023 (with Roojin Habibi, Steven J. Hoffman, Gian Luca Burci, Danwood Chirwa, Stéphanie Dagron, et al).
- 2020 Guiding Principles of Global Health Governance in Times of Pandemics: Solidarity, Subsidiarity, and Stewardship in American Journal of Bioethics, 20, 7, pp. 212-14
- 2020 The Traditional Definition of Pandemics, Its Moral Conflations, and Its Practical Implications: A Defense of Conceptual Clarity in Global Health Law and Ethics, in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 29, pp. 205-17
- 2020 Do Not Violate the International Health Regulations During the COVID-19 Outbreak, in The Lancet, Published Online: February 13, 2020. (with Steven Hoffman et al)
- 2019 MAiD in Canada and the Homo Economicus View of Dignity: Inclusive Enough? in Journal of Disability, Religion, and Health, vol 22, issue 3, pp.246-65
- 2018 Navigating Impasses in Bioethics – End of Life, Disability, and Mental Illness (introduction to Special Issue), in Journal of Disability and Religion, vol 22, issue 3, pp.1-3 (with Lidia Ripamonti and Philip McCosker)
- 2018 An Ethical and a Legal Challenge in the Mitochondrial Donations Regulations: The Right to Know and Trace One's Genetic Origins, in Oxford Journal of Law, Policy, and the Family, vol 32, issue 2, pp.170-83 (with Caterina Milo )
- 2017 Zika, Public Health, and the Distraction of Abortion, in Journal of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, vol 20, issue 3, pp.443-46
- 2016 The Wellbeing Conception of Health and the Conflation Problem, in The New Bioethics Journal, vol 22, issue 1, pp.71-81
- 2015 The Idea of Patents vs. The Idea of University, in The New Bioethics Journal, vol 21, issue 2, pp.164-76
- 2012 Introduction: Pharmaceutical Firms and the Right to Health, in The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 40, pp.183-87 (with Thomas Pogge)
- 2012 Health as a Basic Health Need – Would this be Enough?, in The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 40, pp.251-67
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