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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Webinar Recording Date and Time: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:00pm EDT | 6:00pm – 7:00pm EEST Location: Zoom – Registration required Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for a discussion about humanitarian intervention in Gaza. Panelists will discuss the historical context of humanitarian intervention in Palestine, its role within a fractured health care system, and the potential and limitations of humanitarian intervention during the current attacks on…

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Below are excerpts from the discussion and thoughts from the panel’s moderator, lightly edited for clarity. Webinar Recording Date and Time: Tuesday, September 24, 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 discussion about the outbreak of poliovirus in the Gaza Strip for the first time in 25 years. Panelists will discuss the causes…

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Date and Time: Friday, October 11, 2024 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET Location: Zoom - Registration Required Join the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human rights for a virtual discussion of the program's most recent report titled "Confronting Major and Everyday Discrimination. Romani Experiences in Canada’s Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area." The FXB Center, in partnership with the Canadian Romani Alliance, launched a qualitative study involving middle-class and…

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Date and Time: Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 1:00p.m. – 2:00p.m. ET Location: Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Ave (Level 7), Boston, MA 02115 This event is only open to HUID holders. Preregistration is required. Please email Claire Street at cstreet@hsph.harvard.edu to register. Description: As days get hotter and summers longer, we do not yet know what the impact of this…

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