Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World’s Least Healthy People : Toward a Framework Convention on Global HealthLawrence O. Gostin is University Professor, the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law, and Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute on National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is also Professor of Public Health, the Johns Hopkins University and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights. Prof. Gostin was a Distinguished Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, in June 2011 when he delivered this keynote address. An expanded version of this paper was published in the Georgetown Law Journal in 2008. See LawrenceO.Gostin, ‘Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World’s Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health’, Georgetown Law Journal, 2008, 96: 331–92, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1014082.