Archive: 2014

2015 FXB Field Education Internships in Rwanda and Colombia The FXB Center is offering new internship opportunities to Harvard students starting in January 2015. Selected applicants will work in the field of community development in either Rwanda or…

FXB fellow Camila Gianella Abortion in Cases of Rape: Toward A Sincere Debate By Camila Gianella October 28, 2014. According to the last Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in Peru, 2.8 percent of women aged 15 to 49 who were in a…

Health worker in an Ebola screening unit in Kenema government hospital, Sierra Leone The catastrophic Ebola crisis unfolding in West Africa offers many lessons, not least for global anti-poverty efforts. These will culminate in a set of targets, to be…

FXB Policy Director Alicia Ely Yamin Along with Rifat Atun, professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Julio Frenk, HSPH dean, FXB policy director Alicia Ely Yamin has contributed to a Special Series issue of…

 On Twitter: @FXBHarvard; Hashtag: #ACostTooHigh “Women’s Lives Matter” was a discussion on October 7, 2014, about the dramatic economic and social impacts of a woman’s death during pregnancy or childbirth, featuring an…

Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptians have little access to healthcare and education, face enduring discrimination, and live in the worst housing conditions in Kosovo. July 29, 2014 — The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights today published a briefing…

Special Issue on Climate Justice and the Right to Health June 13, 2014 — The FXB Center today released Issue 16.1 of the Health and Human Rights Journal, which has a special theme on climate justice and the right to health. This issue…

In late March, FXB Center Director Jennifer Leaning and FXB Fellow Elizabeth Newnham traveled to China at the invitation of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian…

Application Deadline is July 1, 2014 The Global School on Socioeconomic Rights: Course on Health Rights Litigation will be held November 3-5, 2014. Applications are due to rcantor@hsph.harvard.edu by July 1, 2014. Read more about the Global School on…

February 11, 2014 — A new Commission from The Lancet and the University of Oslo, of which Jennifer Leaning, FXB Center Director, and Julio Frenk, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, are both members, has issued an urgent call for a reform…