Center for Public Health and Human Rights

06/30/2022

Anna Pancheshnikov, Rohini Boddu, Leonard Rubenstein, and Nick Cuneo review the case of a unstable gynaecological patient with an ankle monitor & the implications of US ICE’s Alternatives to Detention programme in the healthcare setting.

We review the case of an unstable gynaecological patient in the USA who presented with profuse vaginal bleeding after spontaneous miscarriage and was ultimately diagnosed with a uterine arteriovenous malformation managed with interventional radiology embolisation of her uterine artery. Her case was....

04/15/2022

ICYMI: The full recording of The Vulnerability of Health Care in Conflict: Ukraine and Beyond event with speakers, Chris Beyrer and Len Rubenstein, along with Sergii Dvoriak, head of the board, founder, and senior scientist of the Ukrainian Institute for Public Health Policy; Mulugeta Gebregziabher, professor of biostatistics and vice chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina; and Ghutai Sadeq Yaqubi, acting technical director of USAID's Urban Health Initiative Project through Jhpiego in Afghanistan,

This hybrid event took place on April 13th at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

During this hybrid event, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health experts Chris Beyrer and Len Rubenstein, along with Sergii Dvoriak, head of the boa...

04/08/2022

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Chris Beyrer, who was appointed the new Director of the Duke Global Health Institute - DGHI.

In 2004, Chris founded the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. We don't know where we would be today without his guidance, leadership, and passion for health and human rights.

Christopher C. Beyrer, MD, MPH, an internationally recognized epidemiologist who has worked on the front lines of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 treatment and research, will be the next director of the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), university officials announced Friday. Beyrer will join Duke on August...

04/07/2022

Join us on 4/12 at noon ET for Part 2: Justice for Womxn & Girls of Centering the Voices of Formerly and Currently Incarcerated People & Leaders in the Movement series.

In person: https://bit.ly/3N3QFnN
Online: https://bit.ly/354uVXE

03/15/2022

Centering the Voices of Formerly and Currently Incarcerated People & Leaders in the Movement speaker series is back!

Join us on April 5th at noon ET for Part 1: Education over Incarceration.

Register:
In person: https://bit.ly/3i7p1rp
Online: https://bit.ly/3tahRsX

From Prison Cells to PhD

03/10/2022

"Given Russia’s record, no one should be surprised by these atrocities. In recent decades, Russia has been among the worst perpetrators of attacks on health care in conflicts." -
Len Rubenstein, the Center's Conflict and Health Program Director in Mother Jones.

Now, with the global condemnation of Putin’s assault on Ukraine, there is an opportunity for justice.

02/28/2022

"Always the anthropologist, Paul [Farmer] had a supernatural ability to connect with people, to make them feel seen & inspire them to join him in the indefatigable march toward global health equity that he championed so visibly."

Dr. Nick Cuneo, CPHHR faculty member, remembers Dr. Paul Farmer. https://bit.ly/35gs9i0

01/28/2022

Today, Myanmar is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a health care worker.

“We are determined to continue working until medical personnel can provide required medical care to wounded protesters, the sick, and the injured, freely in each and every corner of Myanmar.”

Myanmar Doctors for Human Rights Network (Partner Statement to UN Human Rights Council)

New report with Physicians for Human Rights, Insecurity Insight, and many more:

Introduction On February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) took control of the country in a coup d’état.[1] Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in protest.[2] The military regime not only imprisoned political rivals and dissenters,[3] but quickly proceeded to wage war again...

01/28/2022

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the universality of health and human rights," comment by the IAS - International AIDS Society - The Lancet Commission on Health & Human Rights.

"...Among his last public statements was a call to extend COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Africa, and for each of us to accept vaccination not only for our own protection, but also for the protection of others. As the world enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and inequities in global access to vaccines, diagnostics, antivirals, oxygen, and personal protective equipment continue, we need to cherish and uphold Tutu's radical vision of inclusivity more than ever. Our shared humanity depends on it."

https://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00121-0/fulltext

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The UN adopted the Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in November, 1973, making this systematised form of racial discrimination an international crime.1 The vote was overwhelmingly in favour of the designation, with only Portugal, South Africa, the USA, and the UK...

01/21/2022

"The spiritual core of Archbishop Tutu's faith, and of his AIDS activism and advocacy, was the African concept of Ubuntu. Ubuntu speaks to our shared mutual interdependence. It recognizes the principle that one's own humanity, one's own dignity, depends on the humanity and dignity of others. " - Drs. Chris Beyrer and Linda-Gail Bekker write in the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS).

Full memorial piece:

Click on the article title to read more.

01/13/2022

In general, a boosted person with a breakthrough COVID-19 infection will experience less intense symptoms, is sick for a shorter period of time, is less likely to be hospitalized, and is less likely to pass on the virus to others, says Dr. Chris Beyrer, Founder and Director.

From preventing COVID-19 altogether to lessening symptoms and transmission with breakthrough infections, there are several good reasons to get an mRNA booster ASAP

12/27/2021

Friends and Colleagues,

The world has lost a giant of peace and a peerless voice for the rights of all people to live in dignity. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was a man who made lasting peace. His vision, which led to the creation of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was a genuine advance for humanity. He never lost his vigorous spirit for human rights anywhere and everywhere. It was the honor of a lifetime when he accepted the Professorship in Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins to be named in his honor (and of course he cackled with laughter over the suggestion before accepting.) He not only fought the evil of the Apartheid system, but took on his church over the full ordination of women, and became a global champion for LGBTQ people everywhere. We send love and condolences to his beloved family, and we are profoundly grateful for the life and for the work of this extraordinary man who signed his texts and messages, simply, “Arch.”

Chris Beyrer, Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights