1 Daniel Tarantola is a Professor of Health and Human Rights and an International and Global Health Consultant, Femey-Voltaire, France. Kenneth Camargo is a Senior Associate Professor, Instituto de Medicina Social/Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and Honorary Vice-President for Latin America and the Caribbean, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sofia Gruskin is with the Keck School of Medicine, the Gould School of Law and the Program on Global Health and Human Rights, Institute for Global Health, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. All three co-authors are Associate Editors of the American Journal of Public Health.