Center for Public Health and Human Rights
We are pleased to invite you to a virtual news conference at 10:30 a.m. EST on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 for the release of a joint report that shows how Venezuela’s collapsed healthcare system is failing to cope with Covid-19. Join us via Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82545095541
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Faculty members have made and sent another follow-up letter to Governor Hogan with a recommendation of issuing an executive order establishing a policy and setting out review procedures for early release of up to 800 individuals from state prisons.
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Faculty members of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing, and School of medicine have made and sent a follow-up letter to Governor Hogan, reasserting their concerns about the spread of COVID-19 in Maryland's prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers.
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Erin Cooney Won the Georgia Buchbinder Award
Our Center's Erin Cooney won an award from the Department of International Health! Please join us in congratulating her.
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.
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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).
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.
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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.
