Date and Time: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:30pm EST | 6:00pm - 7:30pm EET Location: Zoom – Registration required In commemoration of International Women’s Day, the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights invites you to join a webinar dedicated to the Palestinian women in Gaza. The webinar will bring together three feminist scholar-activists in conversation about Gaza, Palestinian women’s health, and resistance to genocide. This webinar…

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Event Recording Date and Time: Monday, March 25 at 1:00pm – 1:30pm ET Location: Hybrid – please register for free in advance to submit questions. Presented jointly by The Studio at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. This event brings together City Councilor At-Large Julia Mejia, who pressed for a reparations task force in Boston, and public health scholar Mary…

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Date and Time: Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 4:00pm -5:30pm EDT. Reception to follow. Location: Salata Institute Conference Room 3.5, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School (79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA 02138) and online. Join the Salata Institute's Climate Action Accelerator, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE, and the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights for a conversation with Cassie Flynn, Global Director of Climate Change at the United Nations Development…

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Watch the YouTube livestream below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km9Vw4fUqRY Date and Time: Friday, April 5, 2024 at 1:00pm - 6:30pm EDT. Reception to follow at 6:30pm. Location: 110 Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138 (Harvard University) and online Conference Overview: In partnership with the Romani Studies Program at Central European University, the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University, the Center for Human…

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Webinar Recording Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT Location: Zoom - registration required Join us for a conversation with Dr. Jennifer Leaning, senior fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on the effect and impact of war and conflict on…

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Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16 | 1:00pm to 2:30pm EDT Location: Kresge 201 and Zoom All HSPH staff, faculty, and students are invited to join the SBS Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee in collaboration with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights on Tuesday, April 16 from 1 PM to 2:30 PM in Kresge 201 or via Zoom for a hybrid screening of the documentary Conscience Point. Participants…

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Date and Time: Thursday, April 18 (part 1) and Friday, April 19 (part 2) | 3:00-5:15 p.m. EDT Location: Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room (FXB Building, 7th Floor). Pizza and beverages will be served. Join us for a screening of Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, a documentary informed by Bianca Stigter’s book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945). The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi…

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Webinar Recording Read Alex de Waal's April 2024 publication in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Date and Time: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:30pm EDT | 6:00pm – 7:30pm EEST Location: Zoom - Registration required Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for a conversation about the starvation of civilians in the Gaza Strip. According to the Human Rights Watch, Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the…

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Webinar recording Date and Time: Thursday, May 2, 2024 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm EDT Location: Zoom – Registration required Join us for a virtual conversation to discuss and contextualize the key findings in the Child Migrants in Family Immigration Detention in the US: An Examination of Current Pediatric Care Standards and Practices report which was published in January 2024. Our speakers will describe the impact of the report on policy…

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Webinar Recording Date and Time: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | 6:00pm – 7:00pm EDT Location: Zoom – Registration required Speaker: Alice Rothchild is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who worked in the health care reform and women’s movements for many years. She directed a documentary film and is now writing and speaking, and blogs when inspired or particularly outraged by the state of the world. Since 1997, she has focused much of her…

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