Center for Public Health and Human Rights
Join us for our Fall Symposium October 5
Please join Dr. Parveen Parmar and Hopkins alum, Jennifer Leigh as they present on Physician for Human Rights forthcoming report on the recent Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh/Myanmar.
Join us 12:15 PM in Becton Dickinson.
Thursday, October 11 at 4 PM in Sommer Hall. Center Director, Dr. Chris Beyrer will be moderating the panel "Panel: A Landmark Protest, 30 Years Later". This event will also be webcast.
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Center Director, Dr. Chris Beyrer is co-chairing the IAS-Lancet Commission Launch on the Future Global Health and the HIV Response. While Center faculty Dr. Stef Baral is participating in a highly anticipated Plenary Session on Breaking Barriers of Inequity in the HIV Response
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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
Human Rights, Health and Conflict Program Director, Leonard Rubenstein co-authored a report on The Criminalization of Healthcare Under Counter-terrorism Law.
Access the full report here
Center Director, Dr. Chris Beyrer, is quoted in the June 8th 2018 Vol. 360 Issue 6393 Science Journal.
Read the complete article here
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
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.)
Read full article here
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.
