Center for Public Health and Human Rights
On June 14, 2018, Center Director, Chris Beyrer, Dean Ellen MacKenzie and other key leaders in the Bloomberg School of Public Health issued a statement, "Separating Families at U.S. Borders is a Public Health Issue."
Please see the full statement here
Center Director, Dr. Chris Beyrer, is quoted in the June 8th 2018 Vol. 360 Issue 6393 Science Journal.
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Human Rights, Health and Conflict Program Director, Leonard Rubenstein, chaired the report on Attacks on Health Care in 2017.
There is also a companion editorial published in the Lancet, "Healthcare in conflict: war still has rules"
Access the full report here
Human Rights Watch published a report on Russia's targeted health censorship, which cites Dr. Chris Beyrer and Dr. Andrea Wirtz's paper on the HIV epidemic in Russia.
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Dr. Chris Beyrer calls for HIV prevention and treatment for people who use drugs in his Plenary statement at the United Nations Commission on Narcotics Drugs (CND)
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Rights and Sex Work
Please join Kate Shannon, PhD, MPH, Sheree Schwartz PhD, MPH, and Ayden Scheim, PhD on Friday April 13th from Noon – 1:30 p.m. in Anna Baetjer (W1030) at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Center faculty Dr. Andrea Wirtz and Dr. Tonia Poteat published an article that summarizes the current body of research on gender-based violence among trans populations and highlights areas for future research,
intervention, and policy.
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Sheree Schwartz, Phd, MPH article on viral load monitoring in key populations in low and middle income countries: challenges and opportunities
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Dr. Chris Beyrer comments on the Rohingya crisis and human rights in the Lancet.
(Shown: Satellite imagery obtained by Human Rights Watch show the complete destruction of the village of Chein Khar Li in Rakhine State.)
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The Center for Public Health and Human Rights (CPHHR) works to advance understanding of the critical links between health and human rights.
Since it was established in 2004, the Center has become a global leader in research, teaching and advocacy designed to help some of the world’s most disadvantaged people to assert their rights to health and to human dignity.
