first two points, but Mann and colleagues proceeded to call for the validation of the third point and challenged the world to practice it. 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, Mann 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, Mann 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. Death Mann died in the crash of Swissair Flight 111 in 1998 along with his second wife, AIDS researcher Mary Lou Clements-Mann. At the time of his death, Mann was the dean of the Allegheny University School of Public Health (now Drexel University School of Public Health) in Philadelphia. Bibliography External links HealthRight International Homepage References 1947 births 1998 deaths HIV/AIDS activists World Health Organization officials Accidental deaths in Nova Scotia People who died at sea Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Canada Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1998 Harvard School of Public Health alumni Washington University School of Medicine alumni Writers from Boston 20th-century American writers American officials of the United Nations Harvard College alumni Newton South High School alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine Washington University in St. Louis alumni 20th-century American academics