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Kim, Jim Yong
Kim, Jim Yong
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"Intellectual leadership in human rights, as Jonathan Mann understood, involves more than rigorous research and analysis — although these are indispensable. Leadership on the right to health must be informed by the knowledge that emerges in frontline contexts, where communities confront the consequences of rights failures, and where implementers work to deliver the services without which rights guarantees are empty promises. Jonathan Mann’s purpose in launching the journal was not only to bridge academic disciplines, including public health, medicine, law, and ethics, but to connect the FXB Center’s teaching, learning, and intellectual work more closely with front-line settings, where the real struggles over health and human rights take place. Under Jonathan Mann and his successor in the editorship, Sofia Gruskin, the journal advanced in this direction. It became a premier international forum for critical debate and learning on human rights, engaging contributors from many countries and professional horizons. To the extent possible within the constraints intrinsic to the print medium, it brought the voices and analyses of field practitioners into conversation with the results of more formal scholarly research. But the limitations of HHR’s publishing format set barriers to how far and how rapidly this agenda could progress. Today, we are harnessing new technologies to remove those barriers and break fresh ground in driving action on the right to health. Interactive publishing technologies, allied to an open access philosophy, are the prerequisites for this transformation. Moving Health and Human Rights to the web as an open access publication means that anyone in the world with a connection to the Internet can now access the journal’s entire content free of charge. But that shift is only the leading edge of a much more ambitious agenda. What the new HHR ultimately aims to achieve is a structural change in how, where, and by whom knowledge about health action and human rights is produced and used."(pg 1)
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