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Practical Justice: Principles, Practice and Social Change

Engaging global institutions to achieve practical justice: the case of sexual rights

Posted on April 29, 2019May 2, 2019

Practical Justice: Principles, Practice and Social Change engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society. Among its chapters is "Engaging global institutions to achieve practi... read more →

“It’s Changed Our Way of Eating a Lot”: Experiences of Nutrition and Health Improvements After Participation in an Urban Home Garden Program

Posted on April 2, 2019April 3, 2020

To elucidate the perceived health benefits of an urban home gardening and nutritional education program in a population at high cardiometabolic risk with qualitative data collected via in-depth, semistructured interviews in ... read more →

Sexual Assault on College Campuses Is a Pervasive Problem

Posted on April 1, 2019May 6, 2019

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and legislative action is needed. (more…)... read more →

Establishing Competencies for a Global Health Workforce: Recommendations from the Association of Pacific Rim Universities

Posted on March 26, 2019May 2, 2019

Despite growing interest in global health and proliferation of global health education programs worldwide, there's little agreement on what constitutes appropriate competencies and training in the field. (more…... read more →

Time’s Up on Child Marriages in the U.S.

Posted on March 13, 2019May 2, 2019

USC's Mellissa Withers, associate professor of clinical preventive medicine, and Alyssa Kyle, a health promotion and disease prevention studies student, delve into child marriage as a form of human trafficking in this install... read more →

Sex work-related stigma: Experiential, symbolic and structural forms in the health systems of Delhi, India

Posted on February 5, 2019April 29, 2019

Sex work-related stigma is prevalent in urban India. While HIV-stigma is often discussed in urban Indian health contexts, rarely is sex work-related stigma investigated as it shapes sex workers' health experiences. This paper... read more →

Police-Related Deaths and Neighborhood Economic and Racial/Ethnic Polarization, United States, 2015–2016

Posted on January 25, 2019

Researchers have found police-related death rates are highest in neighborhoods with the greatest concentrations of low-income residents and residents of color. The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health J... read more →

We are not infertile’: challenges and limitations faced by women in same-sex relationships when seeking conception services in São Paulo, Brazil

Posted on January 19, 2019February 14, 2019

The use of reproductive technologies has expanded beyond cases of infertility, and opportunities for individuals of different sexual orientations to use such technologies for conception have increased. Authors including... read more →

Global Health Leadership: Case Studies From the Asia-Pacific

Posted on December 10, 2018May 2, 2019

This timely book serves as an overview of the challenges in global health leadership from multiple perspectives, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics, researchers, and leaders from around the world who ar... read more →

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the UDHR, celebrating sexual and reproductive rights

Posted on December 7, 2018May 2, 2019

In this editorial, published in the journal Reproductive Health Matters, authors Eszter Kismödi and Laura Ferguson discuss the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its reaffirmation of the dignity and worth of the human... read more →