Jonathan Max Mann was an American physician who was an administrator for the World Health Organization.
Education
Mann was president of the National Honor Society in the Newton South High School class of 1965. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College, his Doctor of Medicine from Washington University in Saint Louis (1974), and the degree of Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1980.
Career
Joined the Centers for Disease Control in 1975, staying there until 1977. He then became the State Epidemiologist for New Mexico, until 1984. founded the World Health Organization"s Global Programme for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in 1986. In March 1990, resigned this post to protest the lack of response from the United Nations with regard to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and the actions of the then World Health Organization director-general Hiroshi Nakajima.
In 1990, founded the health and human rights organization HealthRight International (initially known as Doctors of the World-United States of America), because he felt there was a void amongst the health and human rights organizations in the United States and he wanted to create a unique organization whose mission was to create sustainable programs that promote and protect health and human rights in the United States and abroad. in 1994, directed the launch of the journal Health and Human Rights (journal), published by the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, which he also helped to establish.
At the time of his death, was the dean of the Allegheny University School of Public Health (now Drexel University School of Public Health) in Philadelphia. Jonathan was a pioneer in advocating combining public health, ethics and human rights.
He theorized and actively promoted the idea that human health and human rights are integrally and inextricably connected, arguing that these fields overlap in their respective philosophies and objectives to improve health, well-being, and to prevent premature death. proposed a three-pronged approach to the fundamental issue of the relationship between health and human rights. First, health is a human rights issue.
Secondly (and conversely), human rights are a health issue.
Human rights violations result in adverse health effects. Thirdly, linkages exist between health and human rights (a hypothesis to be rigorously tested). Literature substantiates the effects of the first two points, but and colleagues proceeded to call for the validation of the third point and challenged the world to practice lieutenant
His work led to the development of the Four-Step Impact Assessment, a multi-disciplinary approach of evaluating interdependent and overlapping elements of both disciplines of human rights and Public Health.
With this framework, attempted to bridge a perceived gap of philosophies, correspondence and vocabulary, education and training, recruitment, and work methods between the disciplines of bioethics, jurisprudence, public health law and epidemiology. Furthermore, knew that the history of "conflictual relationships" between officials of public health and civil liberties workers presented challenges to the pursuit of what he called a "powerful" confluence of health and human rights – a positive approach.