On Tuesday, April 13, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University will host the next event in its Work-in-Progress Series. During this event, Carr Center Fellow Binalakshmi Nepram will present “Human Rights Issues of Indigenous People in Northeast India.” This event will take place as a Zoom webinar from 1 to 2 p.m. To register and receive Zoom webinar details, please contact Jasmine Young at jasmine_young@hsph.harvard.edu.…

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Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities around the world have long engaged in cultivating individual and collective pleasure, healing, and liberation, both as resilience mechanisms in the face of oppression and as celebrations in their own right. In recent times, with the ubiquity of traumatic occurrences such as the COVID-19 pandemic, state-sanctioned violence, and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change, living under negligent systems has felt increasingly harrowing and inescapable.…

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On Tuesday, May 4, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University will host the next event in its Work-in-Progress Series. During this event, Roshni Chakraborty will present “Documenting Citizenship: Gendered Impacts of the National Registry of Citizens in India.” Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, the FXB Center's Director of Research, will provide introductory remarks. This event will take place as a Zoom webinar from 1 to 2 p.m.…

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Event Details On Tuesday, May 25, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University will host the next event in its Work-in-Progress (WIP) Series. Please join us for a panel discussion on The Chelsea Project: The Alchemy of Science, Policy and Community. Dr. Margaret Sullivan, FXB Center research fellow, will provide introductory remarks. This event will take place as a Zoom webinar from 1 to 2 p.m.…

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Event Details Please join the FXB Center for a special event, "Medicare for All: A Conversation with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed." During this event, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and FXB Center Director Dr. Mary T. Bassett will discuss the themes in Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide, a new book authored by Dr. El-Sayed and Dr. Micah Johnson. FXB Center Executive Director Dr. Natalia Linos will moderate the discussion. This virtual event…

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Event Details Globally, we are facing a multitude of intersecting and calamitous issues, including an erosion of trust in state and non-state institutions, global health catastrophes, international economic and political instability, and growing inequality. These are underpinned by the concerning state of our planet with the unabated climate crisis, which disproportionately affects children. This compels us to expand our thinking in new ways and look to alternative approaches to redress…

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