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Child Protection Certificate Program

Applications are now being accepted for the 2025-2026 cohort!
Open to Harvard graduate students.
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G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training program

Applications are open until December 1, 2025.
Program dates: June 2026
Location: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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The pursuit of equity is central to all we do
About Us
Child drawing of children. The FXB Center is founded on the inextricable link between health and human rights and is committed to filling critical gaps in mainstream academic scholarship to champion the rights and dignity of every individual, with special attention to children—among the most vulnerable.
Recently published!
A book that explores the protection of children in an increasingly tumultuous world.
Available here
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Coming soon!
This book situates anti-Roma racism within national and intra-continental histories and global scholarship, exploring its specific and universal underpinnings and manifestations and its interconnectedness with other systems of oppression.
Available in November 2025
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Exploring the association of household location and sociodemographic profile on dietary diversity in occupied Palestine: a serial cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health
August 8, Weeam Hammoudeh (Co-Author)

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Minimum Standards for Medical Care of Youth Incarcerated Across the United States

Pediatrics
July 21, Tess Kelly (Co-Author)

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Climate change, migration, and health: Development of a case-based workshop for immigrant and refugee health professionals

The Journal of Climate Change and Health
July 2025, Tess Wiskel, Gaurab Basu (Co-Authors)

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Advancing health equity in wastewater-based epidemiology: A global critical review and conceptual framework

SSM – Population Health
June 2025, Soroush Moallef, Ruchita Balasubramanian, Nancy Krieger, Mary T. Bassett, Tori L. Cowger (Co-Authors)

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Select Research and FXB News

NIH director Bhattacharya’s views on health disparities contradict, experts say (Mary Bassett and Nancy Krieger quoted, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, August 7, 2025)

Inclusion of children and youth in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports (AR1-AR6), Nature Communications, July 4, Elizabeth Donger (Co-Author)

Antimicrobial resistance in a protracted war setting: a review of the literature from Palestine, mSystems, May 21, Osama Tanous, David Mills, Bram Wispelwey, Yara Asi, Weeam Hammoudeh (Co-Authors)