Education

Center for Public Health and Human Rights

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Education

The Center for Public Health and Human Rights actively seeks to engage students of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health by first equipping them with technical knowledge of public health and human rights, and then allowing them to translate the skills acquired in the classroom to hands-on research experience. The University offers a variety of on-campus courses related to the field of human rights.

Student Opportunities:
Several internship and volunteer opportunities are available with our partner, GHAP, in Thailand.

In the News...

Center News:
Boston Globe In an Op-Ed piece, Dr. Beyrer and Frank Donaghue criticize the Burmese junta for the sentencing of civilian volunteers for assisting others after Cyclone Nargis. Read

60th Anniv. of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Join the CPHHR and the panel of international health and human rights experts as we convene in New York in celebration of the UDHR. Information/Registration

Borderline Health JHSPH Magazine reports on the MOM Project in Burma. Read

Voice of America Interview with Dr. Beyrer regarding the HIV epidemic among MSM. Listen

Just Released! Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, edited by Drs. Celentano and Beyer. See our Resources page or read the Lancet review.

Student Opportunities: Several internship and volunteer opportunities are available with GHAP in Thailand.

International News:
Cholera in Zimbabwe Over 500 deaths due to cholera is only part of the health crisis the country currently faces. Read

Measles Outbreak in Burma: Between April and September 2008, 512 people were sick and four had perished as a result of the measles outbreak on the Thai-Burma border. Read

Human Rights, Infectious Disease, and Incarceration: Reporters Without Borders and the Burmese Media Association report spread of HIV to a jailed poet via forcible injection. Read