The HHRC at BUSPH is a student organization dedicated to exploring and supporting health and human rights concerns through education and action
The Health and Human Rights Caucus at the Boston University School of Public Health is a student-led organization that dedicates its efforts to exploring and supporting health and human rights concerns through education, collaboration, and action in the local, national, and global milieu. Students in the HHRC work together to identify, discuss, and help raise awareness of human rights issues in ou
04/19/2017
School-Based Health | Public Health Post Many vulnerable students are not able to access health care due to transportation or financial barriers. School-based health centers, while not yet widely implemented, have positive influences on both health and education outcomes.
04/13/2017
Check out this link Despite the stark divide on ideology, the majority of people surveyed believe government should play a prominent role in health.
04/11/2017
7 Dresses 4 Health | Public Health Post What is the role of the artist activist in public health? Marian Brown describes her performance piece adDRESSing health: 7 dresses, 7 days a week, 52 weeks, 365 days a year.
03/29/2017
‘Home’ and Human Rights | Public Health Post There are now four million more refugees worldwide. In the face of the worst refugee and displaced persons crisis in history, powerful and wealthy nations of the world have an undeniable obligation to confront this massive pandemic.
03/17/2017
A New Approach to Addiction | Public Health Post Facing a dramatic upswing in overdoses and deaths related to he**in and prescription opioid painkillers, the Arlington Police Department hired a...
03/08/2017
LGBT Rights and Adolescent Health | Public Health Post As the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. states consider policies governing transgender rights, there is a need for representative data on transgender...
03/07/2017
Immigrant Doctors Project 14 million doctors' appointments are provided each year by physicians from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — the six countries targeted by the recent Executive Order. They are spread out across America, providing vital services throughout the Rust Belt and Appalachia, especially in Ohio...
03/07/2017
Dignity in Language for Population Health | Public Health Post Microaggressions are subtle, insidious, and often nearly constant in the experience of individuals belonging to marginalized identity groups.
03/04/2017
Living with Purpose | Public Health Post Dr. Trish Scanlan shares her story of surviving breast cancer not once, but twice, while working with children with late-stage cancer in Tanzania.
02/06/2017
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Coverage Maps Show what the ACA Accomplished – and What We Have to Lose... Four maps show the reduction in the percentage of population without health insurance from 2013 to 2016 under the ACA.
02/03/2017
Physicians For Human Rights To Receive Dodd Prize Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that for decades has documented war crimes and atrocities, will be awarded the Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights, UConn said Thursday.
01/27/2017
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Trump's Executive Actions Reverse Obama Policies on Torture, Healthcare & Guantánamo Bay We speak with Vincent Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, about the powers of the president.