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Archive: 2018
One in One Hundred: Roma Value Education But Face Racism in Access
One in One Hundred: Drivers of Success and Resilience among College-Educated Romani Adolescents in Serbia
New report on factors for success among Romani college students challenges the narrative of Roma indifference to education
For immediate…
Changes to Public Charge Regulations: A Threat to Immigrant and Public Health
Panelists: Andrew Cohen, JD; Leah Zallman, MPH, MD; Lara Jirmanus, MPH, MD.
On December 5, Harvard FXB sponsored a panel on proposed changes in regulations around public charge and immigration. Dr. Lara Jirmanus, Andrew Cohen, and Dr. Leah…
Commenting on Regulations, an Example: Proposed Change to Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility
By Susan Lloyd McGarry
Many in the public health community have concerns about the possible effects of proposed changes in regulations related to how US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security (US CIS, DHS) determines…
Rapid Needs Assessment of the Rohingya in Cox's Bazar
In March 2018, researchers from Harvard FXB and BRAC (the Bangladeshi-based international nongovernmental organization) conducted a rapid assessment household survey among 800 Rohingya and host families in Ukhia and Teknaf in the District of Cox’s…
Leading with Science: One Year After Hurricane Maria
On the first year anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, several of the senior authors of the May 2018 New England Journal of Medicine paper “Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria” discussed the motivation and…
Beyond Maria: Leading With Science
In late May this year, a collaborative team from Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Carlos Albizu University in Puerto Rico published “Mortality in…
Fall 2018 Work-in-Progress Seminar Schedule
Harvard FXB’s Work-in-Progress (WIP) Series will start the semester with a presentation from Dr. Satchit Balsari on recent Harvard FXB research with the Rohingya in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.
WIPs are an opportunity for researchers to share their work…
Dean Williams names Mary Bassett incoming director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights
Today Michelle Williams, Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health announced that Dr. Mary Bassett would succeed Dr. Jennifer Leaning as director of Harvard FXB, with the transition in leadership beginning in September.
As Dr. Leaning…
Roma Resistance: Reclaiming Our Story
Berlin Memorial to the Roma and Sinti Murdered by Nazism /Photo by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0
By Marian Mandache
August 2 marks the Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Roma Holocaust. Between 500,000 and 1.5 million Roma were exterminated…
