Students are welcome to join us on Sept. 9 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Kresge G1 for a special screening of The Color of Care, a documentary which chronicles how people of color suffer from systemically substandard healthcare in the United States, with a pressing focus on how the Covid-19 pandemic shed light on the tragic consequences of that inequity. Produced by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and the…
German police accompany a racial scientist interviewing a Romani woman (Germany, late 1930s). Bundesarchiv, R 165 Bild-244-71, via Wikimedia Commons. Moderator: Angéla Kóczé, Assistant Professor and Chair, Romani Studies Program, Central European University Speakers: Margareta Matache, Director, Roma Program, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University Practices of Denial and Distortion of the Samudaripen/Porrajmos in Southeastern Europe Ioanida Costache, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, University…
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Event Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjHW2HAUPmU Event Details: Hunger strikes have been used as means for non-violent resistance and protest over the past several decades by Palestinian political prisoners in Israel/Palestine. The featured panelists will draw on their expertise and experience in the fields of health and human rights to explore various legal, medical, and human rights dimensions of hunger strikes being staged by Palestinian political prisoners. Panelists: Dr. Lina Qasem Hassan, Physician and…
From the transfer of ideas and people across borders through the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine civilizations to today's large-scale distress migration, Greece is an important location for studying the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of mobility in the Eastern Mediterranean. In this year's Worldwide Week at Harvard, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, in cooperation with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Department of History of…
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In partnership with Harvard Public Health magazine, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights will host a free, in-person symposium at Harvard University’s Martin Center. Throughout the day, we will be examining the challenging question of how to redress centuries of anti-Black racism – and how to ensure that reparations are designed with the long-term health of Black communities and individuals in mind. Speakers will bring a wide range…
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Event Recording Join a panel discussion on the key takeaways for climate and health from COP27, the annual UN Climate Conference, with our Climate Change and Human Health Fellows who were on the ground in Sharm El Sheikh. This virtual event is co-hosted by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
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This event will entail a fireside chat led by Dr. Brittney Butler, PhD, MPH, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University and will focus on how carceral states undermine reproductive justice rights for birthing people in the U.S. During our time we will use a critical and interdisciplinary lens to understand what can be done to mitigate the harms of these systems for…
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Event Recording: https://youtu.be/jnPZv8eY5sc Event Details: The Health and Human Rights Journal has recently published a special section on the Palestinian right to health aiming to explore the conceptual and material connections between settler colonialism, structural racism, and human rights approaches to Palestinian health. Please join the editors and authors as they engage in discussions on their paper contributions to this special edition. Introductory Remarks: Dr. Carmel Williams is the executive…
Please join the Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at Harvard Divinity School, and the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights at the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights for lunch and a discussion with Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, psychiatrist and Director General of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), and Dr. Sara Roy, on the human rights and mental…
Join this event hosted by the Harvard Scholars at Risk (SAR) Program, Heal Ukraine Group (HUG), and the Global Medical Knowledge Alliance (GMKA) in collaboration with Harvard Medical School affiliated physicians and scientists. Ukrainian clinicians participating in the SAR program at MGH and BWH currently, will discuss their work in healthcare in Ukraine, the needs of the country's healthcare system and ongoing challenges. Panel of Visiting Scholars: Sofiya Hrechukh, MD…
