V. Obijiofor Aginam, Salvaging the Global Neighbourhood: Multilateralism and Public Health Challenges in a Divided World, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia. This thesis explores the relevance of international law in the multilateral protection and promotion of public health in a world sharply divided by poverty and underdevelopment. In this endeavour, the thesis predominantly uses the concept of "mutual vulnerability" to discuss the globalisation of diseases and health hazards in the emergent global neighbourhood. Because pathogens do not respect geo-political boundaries, this thesis argues that the world has become one single germ pool where there is no health sanctuary.
