Professor Alicia Ely Yamin launches a highly acclaimed book on health and human rights in Nairobi

Harvard Professor Alicia Ely Yamin’s book, Power, Suffering and the Struggle for Dignity will be launched tomorrow, 12 April 2016, from 6pm at the Windsor Golf Hotel & Country Club in Nairobi. The book, which sheds light into health as a human right, shares insightful experiences from Prof. Yamin’s global knowledge and expertise on the realization of health care.

The discussants at the launch will be the Chair of the National Gender & Equality Commission, Commissioner Winfred Lichuma, and Catherine Mumma, a former commissioner with the Constitution Implementation Commission.

“This is an inspiring book that brings forth the voices of the people on how realization of the right to health is a matter of life and death.  it also demonstrates how to make the right to health a reality from the global to the regional and national levels, ‘’

says Allan Maleche, Executive Director – KELIN.

The author is a lecturer on law and global health and policy director at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, and director of J.D. M.P.H Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The book is relevant to the on-going discussions hosted by KELIN with multiple stakeholders alongside partners on realizing the right to health and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in East Africa using the right-based approaches.