The Center for Public Health and Human Rights has hosted or participated in several presentations and conferences, including: Building the Evidence Base for Public Health and Human Rights
Tuesday, October 20, 2009, at 4 p.m.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Speakers from the CPHHR included:
Chris Beyrer, Leonard S. Rubenstein, and Luke Mullany
View flyer Living in Closed Country: Remembering Burma's Saffron Revolution
Thursday, September 10 at 5:00pm,
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Screening of the 2009 Sundance award winning documentary, Burma VJ (view trailer)
Speakers included U Agga Nya, U Gawsita, and U Pyi Nya Zaw Ta, three Burmese monks in exile following the 2007 Saffron Revolution.
In-depth Discussion with U Agga Nya Na, U Gawsita, and U Pyi Nya Zaw Ta return for an in-depth discussion of their experiences in the 2007 Saffron Revolution, the factors that led to the culmination of the monks’ peaceful protests and subsequent government crackdown, and the challenges faced by those still living in Burma today.
Friday, September 11 at 12:00pm,
Bloomberg School of Public Health Read Christine Grillo's interviews with U Agga Nya Na, U Gawsita, and U Pyi Nya Zaw Ta CPHHR 5th Anniversary Event: Right to Health and Crimes Against Humanity
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Featured Speaker: Mary Robinson (President, Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative; Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Former President of Ireland)
Other speakers: Leonard Rubenstein, Dr. Voravit Suwanvanichkij, and Dr. Chris Beyrer
View poster
The Global Arc of Justice: Sexual Orientation Law Around the World
March 11-14, 2009
UCLA Los Angeles, CA Dr. Stefan Baral will present alongside Carlos Caceres, Scott Long, Dean Peacock, and Jorge Saavedra in the plenary session Human Rights & Global Health: LGBT Equality & the Fight Against HIV/AIDS on Thursday, March 12 at 12:45
View presentation
PHR Report Press Conference
New York Press Conference:
Tuesday, January 13, 1:15 p.m.
United Nations Church Center
777 UN Plaza
New York City, NY
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and Dr. Chris Beyrer?launched their report, Health in Ruins: A Man-made Disaster in Zimbabwe,?on human rights violations and the collapse of the public health system in Zimbabwe and their association with the cholera epidemic. The report details what happens when a government presides over the dramatic reversal of its population?s access to food, clean water, basic sanitation, and health care. It also accuses the Mugabe regime of abrogating the most basic state functions in protecting the health of the population.
SPEAKERS: Susannah Sirkin (PHR), Chris Beyrer (CPHHR), Richard Sollom (PHR) and Mary Robinson (Realizing Rights: and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights).
Press Release AAAS Launch of Science?and Human Rights Coalition
AAAS Headquarters
Washington, DC
January 14-16, 2009
Dr. Beyrer joined Mary Robinson, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and numerous renowned human rights advocates and scientific investigators at the launch of the Science and Human Rights Coalition. The symposium workshops were devoted to brainstorming the future of the coalition and included presentations, training workshops, and planning meetings to prepare the Coalition for its role in making human rights a reality for all.
Go to AAAS website 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights
New York Academy of Sciences, NY
December 5, 2008, 1:00 to 5:00pm
JHSPH and NYAS joined together to host a symposium to evaluate progress in public health and human rights on the anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Experts in public health and human rights, included Laurie Garrett, Patricia Gatling, Joseph Amon, Gara LaMarche, Robert Lawrence, Leonard Rubenstein, Ruth Wedgewood, and Chris Beyrer came together to discuss the national and global progress, challenges, and future of public health and human rights.?
View a summary of the event AAAS Panel Discussion
Science Serving Human Rights: Making it Happen
Washington, D.C.
October 23, 2008
Chris Beyrer and Philip Fornaci team up to discuss their work to bring together public health and law.?
This collaboration? played a crucial role in the DC Prisoners? Project to assure that prisoners? healthcare rights are not violated during?incarceration.
Read more about this discussion and other important collaborations in Science and Human Rights. amfAR's?Global Consultation on MSM and HIV
Washington, D.C.
September 28 - 29, 2008
Experts in international research on HIV (including CPHHR's Drs. Beyrer and Baral)
View amfAR's summary of the event U.S. Congressional Briefing
"Men who have sex with men (MSM) and the Global HIV & AIDS epidemic"
Dr. Chris Beyrer and AIDS Project Los Angeles
Washington, D.C.
September 15, 2008
View Dr. Beyrer's presentation
View all presentations U.S. State Department Roundtable Discussion"Human Rights and Democracy Programs in Asia and Latin America: Working in Difficult Environments"
Dr. Chris Beyrer
Washington, D.C.
September 10, 2008 CDC / ATSDR Health and Human Rights Work Group
"Population-based survey methods to quantify associations between human rights violations and health outcomes among internally displaced persons in eastern Burma"
Dr. Beyrer and Dr. Mullany
Atlanta, GA
July 22, 2008
View slides A Symposium at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"Public Health and Human Rights: Building the Evidence Base"Atlanta, Ga.
July 9, 2008 Conference on the Malawi HIV Clinical Trials Unit
Sponsored by?Johns Hopkins University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and University of Malawi College of Medicine.
"HIV Vaccine Prevention"
University of Malawi College of Medicine
June 30, 2008
Center for Strategic and International Studies Event
"The Humanitarian Crisis in Burma Post Cyclone Nargis"
Center Director, Chris Beyrer, joins Tony Danbury, Patrick Marcham, and Ky Luu to discuss the human rights crisis in Burma following the destruction of Cyclone Nargis.?
Washington, DC
May 9, 2008
Listen to the discussion Responding to Infectious Diseases in the Border Regions of South and Southeast Asia (BID) Regional Conference
The Center for Public Health and Human Rights,?the?Human Rights Center at the University of California,?Berkeley, the Global Health Access Program, and The Faculty of Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University convened a regional conference in Bangkok, Thailand. This?conference?united 190 participants, representing 95 different organizations from nine countries?Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, China, India, Thailand, Singapore, U.S. and Vietnam?in a spirit of scientific inquiry and collaboration to focus on shared goals:?to improve health, control the spread of disease and reduce unnecessary suffering.
Bangkok, Thailand
A National AIDS Plan for the U.S.
With the Open Society Institute, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health hosted a , panel discussion on the report, Improving Outcomes: Blueprint for a National AIDS Plan for the U.S. In the U.S., a comprehensive national plan to guide strategic use of dollars to address the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic does not exist. While investments in AIDS-related programs continue to yield powerful results, findings reveal persistent levels of new infection, insufficient access to care, and growing racial disparities largely impacting African Americans. What would a national plan look like?Published by Open Society Institute?s Public Health Watch, Improving Outcomes: Blueprint for a National AIDS Plan for the U.S. offers concrete recommendations for a more strategic approach to HIV programming and policy.
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