Center for Public Health and Human Rights
Kathleen Page - 2021 Levi Watkins Ideals Award
The Levi Watkins Ideals Award, which honors the late Dr. Levi Watkins, is bestowed upon a Johns Hopkins Medicine leader who has made outstanding contributions centered on our core values of excellence and discovery, leadership and integrity, diversity and inclusion, and respect and collegiality.
Chris Beyrer has written a letter in commemoration of December 10th, the International Human Rights Day.
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A Q&A with Crystal Watson and Chris Beyrer
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Call for Papers
Health Security will be devoting an open access special feature to examining how systemic racism is manifested in the practice of health security in the United States and how it has affected preparedness for, responses to, and recovery from COVID-19.
Deadline for article submission:submit by January 31, 2021, to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/healthsecurity.
You are invited to a virtual briefing event to launch the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition annual report on violent attacks and other threats against health care in conflicts across 20 countries.
Register for the briefing event with the link below.
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Our Center's Len Rubenstein is overseeing the Certificate in Health and Human Rights Program. Information on eligibility and the application process can be found by clicking the link below.
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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.
Read the letter here
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.
Read the letter 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.
