Matthew Herder
Director of the Health Justice Institute at Dalhousie University and a global health law and policy expert working on pharmaceutical access, public health law, and health governance.
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Apr 17, 2026 • 51min
The Trump administration is an international health emergency
Matthew Herder, a global health law expert, and Fatima Hassan, a human rights lawyer focused on access to medicines, argue US policy now poses global health dangers. They discuss US withdrawal from WHO, funding cuts harming HIV and TB programs, rising health nationalism, vaccine hesitancy and weakened research institutions. They warn these political shifts have urgent international consequences.
