Fatima Hassan is a South African human rights lawyer who works in the field of health justice.
She won the Calgary Peace Prize in 2022 for her work which included exposing inequity in the global deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.
[4] In her human rights work, she has litigated against private employers, the South African government, and pharmaceutical companies.
[1] She has also worked for the AIDS Law Project, acting for the Treatment Action Campaign, clerked for Justice Kate O'Regan, and was a Special Advisor to Minister Barbara Hogan.
[1] She has served on the Boards of Ndifuna Ukwazi, the Raith Foundation, Médecins Sans Frontières South Africa, the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, and Global Witness.