Reflections Post

Boston, Massachusetts – May 2026 The 2026 Global Community Organizing and Advocacy for Climate and Health (COACH) Fellowship, led by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, Center for Health Equity Education and…

BOSTON, MA, March 30, 2026 The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University is proud to announce that Dr. Susan Bissell, FXB Senior Fellow and longstanding global leader in child protection, has…

During his internship with the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Soroush Moallef witnessed firsthand the impact of Boston's syringe-redemption program.

In September 2025 FXB Director, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, and FXB Visiting Scientist Brittney Francis, PhD, MPH attended the 2nd Africa-CARICOM Summit in Addis Ababa. This is a brief reflection on that experience.

Children in the criminal justice system have complex physical and mental health needs that are often exacerbated by incarceration and go ignored.

Explicitly including farmworkers in state labor law protections will reduce severe poverty in Massachusetts and improve individual, family, and public health.

How do we bridge the language gap in healthcare settings, particularly those serving under-resourced communities?

Why do local people, who generously welcome forced migrants arriving on their doorstep, often change their attitude as time passes with local solidarity morphing into hostility or even rank xenophobia?

March 11, 2025 marked five years since the World Health Organization declared that the world was in the grips of a pandemic, the first in a century.

On this year’s International Women’s Day, we remember the 74th genocide committed against the Yazidi community in northern Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) over a decade ago. Women and children were abducted, sexually abused, and forced into slavery.