Sexuality, gender and human rights Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Global Systemic Evidence Review: Getting to the Heart of Stigma

Posted on August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

USC IIGH, in collaboration with the USC Southern California Evidence Review Center, is carrying out a comprehensive systematic review of tools, measures and interventions designed to address and mitigate against the harmful ... read more →

HIV and the Law: Evaluating Impact

Posted on August 9, 2021August 13, 2021

HIV Global Project for the Evaluation of The Global Commission on HIV USC IIGH, with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is conducting an evaluation of the relevance, effectiveness and impacts of... read more →

Removing legal and structural barriers to ending AIDS by 2030: Lessons from the Global Commission on HIV and the Law

Posted on July 21, 2021December 20, 2021

On June 21, 2021, USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (USC IIGH) Director Sofia Gruskin and Director of Research Laura Ferguson presented their evaluation on the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, published wit... read more →

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Framing COVID-19 as a health and human rights issue

Posted on July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

In a recent publication in The Lancet, USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health Director Sofia Gruskin and fellow commissioners of the International AIDS Society-Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights brought to ... read more →

Laura Ferguson discusses HIV, health and human rights with the Harvard Health Policy Review

Posted on July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

Dr. Laura Ferguson, director of research at the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (USC IIGH), speaks with the Harvard Health Policy Review, providing insight into the relationship that human rights have on HIV r... read more →

Structural racism & the people’s health: history & context matters

Posted on December 19, 2019December 20, 2021

On January 30, 2020, USC IIGH hosted Dr. Nancy Krieger for a talk titled "Structural racism & the people's health: history & context matters". (more…)... read more →

World Association for Sexual Health 2019 Conference

Posted on October 25, 2019December 20, 2021

In October 2019, Sofia Gruskin, Director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, traveled to Mexico City with Avery Everhart, a doctoral student affiliated with IIGH and the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, to ... read more →

Human rights workshop brings together global scholars to address health, gender, sexuality and other issues of our time

Posted on October 18, 2019December 20, 2021

Thought leaders from around the world gathered for a unique two-day workshop that prompted discussion from multi-disciplinary perspectives around the global crises impacting human rights and ways in which these challenges ca... read more →

Addressing gender, equity and marginalization in global health: moving from reductionism to complexity

Posted on August 27, 2019October 23, 2019

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health hosted Pascale Allotey for a conversation around "Addressing gender, equity and marginalization in global health: moving from reductionism to complexity" on September 25, 201... read more →

Webinar: Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services

Posted on August 22, 2019September 18, 2019

WHO launched its first-ever guidelines on ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services in 2014. This ushered a flurry of activity both globally and at the country level to strengthen right... read more →