Expertise

International human rights law with a focus on economic and social rights, particularly the right to health.

Profile

Gillian MacNaughton is a Senior Fellow with the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy at Northeastern University School of Law where she works on international human rights law with a focus on economic and social rights, particularly the rights to health, education and decent work. In recent years, she has worked on human rights-based policymaking methodology, including indicators, budget analysis and impact assessment. Her current research is on the relationship between social rights and equality rights in the International Bill of Human Rights.

Gillian is an adjunct lecturer in the Master's Program in Sustainable International Development at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management - Brandeis University, a visiting lecturer in the European Regional Master's Program in Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Sarajevo and an affiliate member of the Economic and Social Rights Group of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. Previously, Gillian was a tutor in international human rights law at several colleges and programs affiliated with the University of Oxford in the UK. She also served as a senior research officer at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, where she assisted Professor Paul Hunt on his mandate as UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health.