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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard
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The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard is dedicated to the inextricable link between health and human rights. Learn more: fxb.harvard.edu. Stay in touch: https://tinyurl.com/3r958p2f.
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📢 Would you like to join our team? We are looking for an Executive Assistant & Administrative Coordinator!

This full-time, hybrid-format position requires excellent communication & interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to effectively multi-task.

Details: hsph.me/Join-Us
FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University. We are hiring: executive assistant and administrative coordinator. Details: hsph.me/Join-Us. Apply now.
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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💡 Are you at the 2025 @apha.org Annual Meeting?

Stop by "Violations of Human Rights: Analyzing Immigration Challenges in the United States and Around the World" right now to hear about research by Distress Migration Program Director Dr. Vasileia Digidiki.

More information: tinyurl.com/zc43t97b
Vasileia Digidiki
November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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💡 Are you attending the 2025 @apha.org annual meeting?

Director of the FXB Center Program on Immigrants and Unhoused Communities, Dr. Margaret (Maggie) Sullivan Sullivan, FNP-BC, DrPH, FAAN, will be presenting TODAY, November 3, 2025 from 3:30pm-3:45pm.

More information: tinyurl.com/yc269j2u
Dr. Margaret (Maggie) Sullivan Sullivan, FNP-BC, DrPH, FAAN
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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🥂 Congratulations to FXB Visiting Scholar Dr. Jumana Odeh on the 2025 @apha.org Disability Section Health Equity Award!

Her Palestinian Happy Child Centre & “Happy Child” model, created more than 30 years ago, grew into a replicable framework for community-based disability care across the region.
FXB Center for Health & Human Rights logo. 2025 APHA Disability Section Health Equity Award Recipient. Jumana Odeh, MD, MPH, FXB Visiting Scholar. fxb.harvard.edu.
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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📢 Would you like to join our team? We are looking for an Executive Assistant & Administrative Coordinator!

This full-time, hybrid-format position requires excellent communication & interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to effectively multi-task.

Details: hsph.me/Join-Us
FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University. We are hiring: executive assistant and administrative coordinator. Details: hsph.me/Join-Us. Apply now.
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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💡How can we diagnose, treat, and prevent violence against children, as if it were a disease?

Nandana Sen joined us for a wide-ranging discussion to mark the publication of "Protecting the World’s Children: Public Health, Human Rights, Capabilities," co-edited by FXB Senior Fellow Susan Bissell!
“The thread that runs through all of child exploitation is the normalization of violence. What is so difficult to change? There needs to be a paradigm shift.” Nandana Dev Sen. Treating violence against children as a disease, October 28, 2025.
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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📢 When #COVID19 was declared a pandemic, it triggered a wave of aid commitments. An analysis of donor funding revealed profound disconnect between reality and the rhetoric of global solidarity.

Read @thelancet.com commentary by FXB's Jehane Sedky, Abbey Gardner & Louise Ivers: tinyurl.com/bddp5zvf
Our new analysis of COVID-19 donor funding reveals a profound disconnect between the rhetoric of global solidarity and the reality: 60% of official development assistance was issued as loans while direct support to partner governments was minimal with less than nine percent reaching partner governments as grants.” Jehane Sedky, Abbey GardneR, Louise C. Ivers, Loans dominated COVID-19 funding: it's time to adjust, The Lancet, October 25, 2025
October 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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📢 Would you like to join our team? We are looking for an Executive Assistant & Administrative Coordinator!

This full-time, hybrid-format position requires excellent communication & interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to effectively multi-task.

Details: hsph.me/Join-Us
FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University. We are hiring: executive assistant and administrative coordinator. Details: hsph.me/Join-Us. Apply now.
October 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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📣 Have you signed up for our flagship publication's email list? Register to receive notifications from @hhrjournal.bsky.social about #humanrights updates, new journal issues, papers, and weekly news bulletins: tinyurl.com/4dzdwxx8

📑 Read the journal: www.hhrjournal.org
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October 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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🚸 Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on addressing violence against #children with FXB Senior Fellow Dr. Susan Bissell, co-editor of "Protecting the World’s Children: Public Health, Human Rights, Capabilities."

🗓️ Oct. 28, 2025 | 2-5pm ET
📍Thompson Room, Barker Center
➡️ hsph.me/Children
Treating violence against children as a disease. A panel of experts and activists will join Dr. Susan Bissell for several wide-ranging discussions following the publication of the book she co-edited: Protecting the World’s Children: Public Health, Human Rights, Capabilities
October 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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💡FXB Director, Dr. Mary Bassett, joined FXB Research Scientist, Dr. Brittney Francis, to discuss the meaning of #health #equity and reparations as a possible intervention towards achieving it.

Catch a glimpse: tinyurl.com/4952etke

Subscribe to Higher Ed with Dr. B Fran: tinyurl.com/3hbkvwer
Brittney Francis and Mary Bassett in conversation.
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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📣 Know our rights: Legal updates for immigrant health

Join us for a virtual update on #immigration law and policy with Massachusetts healthcare partners Susan Church, Office for Refugees and Immigrants & Heather Yountz, MA Law Reform Institute.

🗓️ Oct. 16 | 2-3pm ET
📍 Zoom
➡️ tinyurl.com/3xybhkuf
Join the Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC), François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, the Health & Law Immigrant Solidarity Network (HLISN), and Massachusetts healthcare partners for a virtual update on immigration law and policy from panelists Susan Church, Chief Operating Officer & Legal Advisor at MA Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI); and Heather Yountz, Senior Immigration Staff Attorney at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. Healthcare leaders, providers, workers, public health professionals, and members of the public encouraged to attend.
October 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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October 11 is the #DayOfTheGirl and marks 30 years since the Beijing Declaration - our blueprint for gender equality: tinyurl.com/4c5sa928

Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc, and Vasileia Digidiki, MSc, PhD, wrote about the protection chasm in contemporary child migration: tinyurl.com/34urdxax
Multiple interrelated factors drive child migration. While some overlap with the drivers of adult migration, girls also migrate as a result of child-specific persecution and harms, such as recruitment as a child soldier, child abuse, child marriage, and the threat of female circumcision. Being denied a regular pathway toward a more rights-respecting life, they are forced to migrate without the proper documentation and identification and are thus more likely to face increased chances for abuse. An effective system of support and legal representation and protection centering children, and particularly girls, in host countries would go a long way towards safeguarding their safety and future. Vasileia Digidiki, MSc, PhD and Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc, “The protection chasm: Contemporary child migration and the enduring denial of legal, safe or regular mobility options” in Bissell, Susan, and A.K. Shiva Kumar (eds), Protecting the World's Children: public health, human rights, capabilities, Oxford, 2025.
October 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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October 11 is the #DayOfTheGirl and marks 30 years since the Beijing Declaration - our blueprint for gender equality: tinyurl.com/4c5sa928

FXB Center Senior Fellow Susan Bissell coedited a book exploring the protection of children and girls in our increasingly tumultuous world: tinyurl.com/34urdxax
The protection of all children is inextricably linked to the life experience of women, adolescents, and girls. Threats like technology-facilitated cyber harassment, climate change, and environmental degradation exacerbate the risk of violence against women and girls and the likelihood they will face displacement and food scarcity. Sexual violence and early or forced marriage are realities too. Ample evidence shows that effective efforts to keep children safe will require even more focused attention on gendered differences. From a public health and human rights perspective, prevention is key. Susan Bissell, BA, MA, PhD, Bissell, Susan, and A.K. Shiva Kumar (eds), Protecting the World's Children: public health, human rights, capabilities, Oxford, 2025.
October 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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📣 Know our rights: Legal updates for immigrant health

Join us for a virtual update on #immigration law and policy with Massachusetts healthcare partners Susan Church, Office for Refugees and Immigrants & Heather Yountz, MA Law Reform Institute.

🗓️ Oct. 16 | 2-3pm ET
📍 Zoom
➡️ tinyurl.com/3xybhkuf
Join the Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC), François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, the Health & Law Immigrant Solidarity Network (HLISN), and Massachusetts healthcare partners for a virtual update on immigration law and policy from panelists Susan Church, Chief Operating Officer & Legal Advisor at MA Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI); and Heather Yountz, Senior Immigration Staff Attorney at Massachusetts Law Reform Institute. Healthcare leaders, providers, workers, public health professionals, and members of the public encouraged to attend.
October 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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📣 Have you signed up for our flagship publication's email list? Register to receive notifications from @hhrjournal.bsky.social about updates, new issues, papers, and weekly news bulletins: tinyurl.com/4dzdwxx8

📑 Read the journal: www.hhrjournal.org
Photo of printed issues of the Health and Human Rights journal.
October 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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📢 Applications are open to three-member regional/country teams for the weeklong June 2026 G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training for mid-career professionals who work to protect #children from abuse, violence, exploitation, and neglect.

Apply by Dec. 1, 2025: hsph.me/FXB-LandryCP
FXB Center for Health & Human Rights logo. "I sincerely valued the opportunity to attend this esteemed child protection program. Not only did the broad range of topics really help me to holistically think of strategies to improve child protection practices, I also deeply appreciated the opportunity to learn and hear from the other participants in regards to child protection issues in their country context." G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training program participant. fxb.harvard.edu.
September 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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🎙Disrupting Peace explores why peace hasn't worked and how it still could. Tomorrow, World Peace Foundation's research director Bridget Conley, FXB Senior Fellow Susan Bissell & Dr. Catherine Panter-Brick, discuss war's impact on DNA, resilience, and steps to help kids globally: tinyurl.com/53259vaz
Special guest alert! Disrupting Peace, Susan Bissell, BA, MA, PhD. I'll be discussing the "First Steps to a Peaceful Childhood for All" on the Disrupting Peace podcast. Dropping September 30th! Tune in on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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💡 We have made enormous strides in elucidating pathways by which past legacies and present realities of racial injustice shape inequities in #health and health care.

In NEJM.org, Drs. Nancy Krieger & Mary Bassett discuss duty to fund work on how structural racism harms health ➡️ tinyurl.com/3z44bnap
FXB Center for Health & Human Rights logo. "Structural racism" is not a "thing" that can be measured using a single metric; it is a unifying concept that extends understanding of the origins of racialized variations in health- related exposures and outcomes beyond the individual level and beyond the issue of the composition and beliefs of the scientific and health systems workforce. Nancy Krieger, PHD AND Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH. Structural and Scientific Racism, Science, and Health — Evidence versus Ideology, The New England Journal of Medicine, September 20, 2025
September 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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📣 Are you a @harvard.edu graduate student, passionate about child protection? Apply by 9/29 for our 2025-2026 #Child Protection Certificate program!

This interdisciplinary program incorporates ongoing child protection research and practice grounded in field-based realities. Details: hsph.me/FXB-CPC
Child protection certificate program. Are you passionate about child protection? The FXB Center’s Child Protection Certificate Program (CPC) is a pioneering initiative that offers Harvard graduate students a unique, interdisciplinary qualification in child protection and equips future professionals with essential tools and perspectives. Courses integrate diverse sectors such as health, education, social services, and law enforcement. Apply now! hsph.me/FXB-CPC
September 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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📢 Applications are open to three-member regional/country teams for the weeklong June 2026 G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training for mid-career professionals who work to protect #children from abuse, violence, exploitation & neglect.

Apply by Dec. 1, 2025: hsph.me/FXB-LandryCP
FXB Center for Health and Human Rights logo. "The interactive exercises helped solidify my understanding and gave me confidence in how to translate the knowledge and information gained into my daily work. What I appreciated most about the training was engaging in discussions with amazing professors, my colleagues from other countries and hearing diverse perspectives significantly enriched my takeaways. I left feeling motivated and supported in putting the lessons into action.“ G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training program participant.
September 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Dr. Satchit Balsari has been working at the intersection of migration and #climatechange as environmental and climate conditions trigger displacement ➡️ tinyurl.com/4h69db9b

To that end, Harvard #Climate Action Week explores actions to enhance resilience to a changing climate ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh9bsdzu
FXB Center for Health and Human Rights logo. We are all implicated in the climate crisis. An earnest response demands we acknowledge how we got here in the first place. Satchit Balsari, MD, MPH.
September 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The 2025 Harvard #Climate Action Week is underway and FXB Faculty Affiliate @gaurabbasu.bsky.social and his team have been working towards organizing and empowering health professionals to advance solutions. Read more on @aamc.org ➡️ tinyurl.com/58ch48s5

This week's events ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh9bsdzu
FXB Center for Health and Human Rights logo. There is a hunger for health professionals to come together and think of solutions around how to care for our earth and a way of caring for people in every part of the world. Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH, FXB Faculty Affiliate.
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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📣 Are you a @harvard.edu graduate student, passionate about child protection? Apply now for our 2025-2026 #Child Protection Certificate program!

This interdisciplinary program incorporates ongoing child protection research and practice grounded in field-based realities. Details: hsph.me/FXB-CPC
Child protection certificate program. Are you passionate about child protection? The FXB Center’s Child Protection Certificate Program (CPC) is a pioneering initiative that offers Harvard graduate students a unique, interdisciplinary qualification in child protection and equips future professionals with essential tools and perspectives. Courses integrate diverse sectors such as health, education, social services, and law enforcement. Apply now! hsph.me/FXB-CPC
September 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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📢 Join us to hear Ta-Nehisi Coates, discuss his latest book, The Message. Introductory remarks: FXB Director Dr. Mary Bassett, MD, MPH. Moderator: Professor of English Namwali Serpell, PhD.

🗓️ Sept. 24, 2025
📍 Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall. Harvard ID required.
⏱️ 6pm-7pm EDT.
➡️ hsph.me/The-Message
Logos: FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University, Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University Department of English, Harvard History Department. The Message: A book talk with author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates. Wednesday, September 24, 2025. 6:00pm-7:00pm EDT. Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall. Harvard ID required. Register: Hsph.me/the-message. Doors open at 5:30.
September 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM