Center for Public Health and Human Rights
If you provide services to people recently released from jail or prison during COVID-19, we are currently looking for research participants.
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CPHHR Spring Event 2021
Join us on 4.19.2021 at noon EST for From COVID-19 to the Coup: Protecting the Right to Health in Myanmar/Burma's Spring Revolution.
Human rights and fair access to COVID-19 vaccines
Read the Lancet comment published by newly established International AIDS Society–Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00708-X/fulltext
Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition Map
A new interactive map highlights 1172 attacks and threats against health workers, facilities, and transport around the world during 2020.
Read about the map here: https://www.safeguardinghealth.org/new-map-depicts-412-acts-pandemic-related-violence-and-threats-health-workers-and-services-around
Chris Beyrer was a co-author on a Viewpoint article entitled "Ending unjust HIV criminalization: leave no‐one behind," recently published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society
Read the full article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jia2.25681
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.
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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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.
