Harvard University, AB 1969
Northeastern University, JD 1976
Office: 60 Cargill Hall
Mail: 400 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 373-3217
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E-mail: b.baker@neu.edu
Brook K. Baker
Professor Baker has written extensively on theories of practice-based learning, critical perspectives on legal writing and cross-cultural lawyering. He has taught and consulted extensively in South African law schools and law school clinics since 1997, particularly on issues of multiculturalism, human rights and HIV/AIDS. Professor Baker assisted in developing the first legal skills course book for South African law schools and is coauthor of a related teachers' manual.
Professor Baker is co-chair and policy analyst for Health GAP (Global Access Project) and is actively engaged in campaigns for Universal Access to treatment, prevention, and care for people living with HIV/AIDS, especially expanded and improved medical treatment. He has written and consulted extensively on intellectual property rights, trade, health financing and access to medicines, including with the African Union, ASEAN, Venezuela, CARICOM, Thailand, DfID, the World Health Organization, the Millennium Development Goals Project and others. He works on policy issues concerning the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the US PEPFAR Program, and how those priority disease initiatives might contribute more broadly to improving health care delivery in developing countries. Professor Baker works on issues involving human resources for health and health system strengthening and is a member of the executive board of the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative of the Global Health Workforce Alliance. Finally he is active in a workingg group challenging IMF macroeconomic policies that restrict increased government and donor spending on health and education in developing countries.
- “Viewpoint – The Danger of Drug Donations (In-Kind Contributions) To the Global Fund – Adverse Market and Therapeutic Effects” (with Ombaka), 371 Lancet (forthcoming, 2009).
- “Ending Drug Registration Apartheid – Taming Data Exclusivity and Patent/Registration Linkage,” 34 American Journal of Law & Medicine 303-344, 2008.
- “The ‘Diagonal’ Approach to Global Fund Financing: A Cure for the Broader Malaise of Health Systems?” (with Ooms, Van Damme, Zeitz, and Schrecker), 4 Globalization & Health 6, 2008.
- “Drug Registration Barriers and Logjams,” in Missing the Target #5: Improving AIDS Drug Access and Advancing Health Care for All, 49-58, ITPC Dec. 2007.
- “Price-Cut Handcuffs: Thailand Must Stand Up to Merck’s Counteroffensive and Fully Implement Its Compulsory License on Efavirenz,” 196 Third World Resurgence, Dec. 2006.
- "Placing Access to Essential Medicine on the Human Rights Agenda," The Power of Pills. Cohen et al, eds. London, 2006.
- “Pills Without Providers: Where are the Health Workers?” 15 ACRIA Update 4, 2006.
- “Processes and Issues for Improving Access to Medicines: Willingness and Ability to Utilize TRIPS Flexibilities in Non-Producing Countries,” United Kingdom Department for International Development, Health Systems Resource Centre, September 2004.
- “Arthritic Flexibilities for Accessing Medicines, Analysis of WTO Action Regarding Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health,” 14 Indiana International & Comparative Law Review 613-715, May 2004.
- “Working Paper: Analysis and Response to Recent WTO Action Regarding TRIPS Agreement and Public Health,” United Nations Millennium Development Goals Project, Task Force 5: Infectious Diseases and Access to Essential Medicines, Dec. 2003.
- “Teaching Legal Skills in South Africa: A Transition from Cross-Cultural Collaboration to International HIV/AIDS Solidarity,” 9 Journal of Legal Writing Instruction 145-183, 2003.
