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Select peer-reviewed publications

Responding to rising heat in workplaces and homes of low income workers

BMJ
November 4, Tess Wiskel, Jennifer Leaning, Satchit Balsari (Co-Authors)

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Refugee Health Under Protracted Structural Oppression: The Palestinian Story

Health Education & Behavior
October 7, Yara M. Asi (Co-Author)

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Structural and Scientific Racism, Science, and Health — Evidence versus Ideology

The New England Journal of Medicine
September 20, Nancy Krieger and Mary T. Bassett (Co-Authors)

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Solidarity towards distress migrants: how changing frontline communities depend on states to build a new public

In Handbook on Migration and Human Rights
September 4, Jacqueline Bhabha, Vasileia Digidiki (Chapter Co-Authors)

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Select research and FXB news

New cohort of Scholarly Working Groups to tackle pressing global health challenges (Satchit Balsari mentioned, The Harvard Gazette, September 25, 2025)

Canadian Roma: A People Uncounted (FXB Roma Program report profiled, Travellers Times, September 5, 2025)

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)

On the passage of US legislation cutting Medicaid: a missive from the “safety net”, The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, July 25, Margaret M. Sullivan (Author)


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Health and Human Rights Journal

The FXB Center’s flagship journal, Health and Human Rights, provides an inclusive forum for action-oriented dialogue among human rights practitioners and scholars. The journal advances human rights knowledge and scholarship in the health field by linking an expanded community of readers and contributors. Being an open access journal, the full text of all articles in Health and Human Rights is freely available to anyone with internet access. Read the journal here.
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