Center for Public Health and Human Rights
Faculty members of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing and School of Medicine express our urgent concern about the spread of COVID-19 in Maryland’s prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers.
Read the letter here
Fall 2019 Symposium
CPHHR's Fall Symposium will focus on the timely topic of Health and Human Rights, the threats it's facing and the future. Our Keynote speaker is Jonathan Cohen, Director of Open Society Public Health Program. Please join us October 15 in Sheldon Hall (W1214).
Please see this handbook authored by CPHHR faculty, Len Rubenstein and Court Robinson on ethical decision making. This is a great tool for any organization that needs guidance on how to make difficult decisions in conflict zones.
Read the handbook here
Several CPHHR faculty and staff will be leading and presenting during sessions at the IAS 2019 conference in Mexico. Please consider attending some of our sessions!
See the CPHHR Itinerary Here
Michael J. Smit, beloved husband of Center Director, Dr. Chris Beyrer passed away on April 1 after a brief illness. Mike will be greatly missed by all who were lucky enough to know him.
Read the obituary
A new report from CPHHR, CHH, along with IRC and SAMS addresses some of the unique and difficult challenges humanitarian health organizations working in settings extreme violence. The report, based on almost 100 interviews with organizational managers and front-line health workers, identifies these challenges and makes recommendations to humanitarian organizations to develop processes to address the questions in a structured and systematic way.
Access the full report here
Center Director, Dr. Chris Beyrer, International AIDS Society's (IAS) Past President speaks for Human Rights Day.
Click here to read the complete blog post
The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health steps into this political debate to provide evidence for cooperation and action on what is one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century.
Read the complete report here
Tamara Taraciuk Broner of Human Rights Watch and Kathleen Page of Johns Hopkins University give a compelling report of the health crisis currently occurring in Venezuela and the need for regional intervention now.
Read the full article here
Please join the Center for Public Health and Human Rights and the Center for Humanitarian Health for a special event, from 12:00-1:20 pm on November 5th in Becton Dickinson, for a panel discussion on the Health Crisis in Venezuela
Click here to watch
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.
