2015 Archives - Page 6 of 9 - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Professor Gruskin joins committee for 2016 rehabilitation symposium

Posted on May 23, 2015August 21, 2018

Professor Sofia Gruskin has been invited by the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) to join the Scientific Committee for IRCT’s 2016 Scientific Symposium focusing on delivering on the promise of ... read more →

Professor Gruskin Joins WHO Family Planning Advisory Board

Posted on May 23, 2015February 27, 2018

Professor Sofia Gruskin, director of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights, has been invited by the World Health Organization to join the Department of Reproductive Health and Research’s Advisory Group on Strength... read more →

Roundtable discussion on the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: why prioritise talk over aid in the midst of the Ebola crisis?

Posted on May 7, 2015August 21, 2018

Health systems experts from around the world discuss why they were meeting at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research while people were dying of Ebola in West Africa. Why were we meeting while real pe... read more →

05/25/15 – Assessing Stress Amongst Adolescents in Los Angeles

Posted on April 30, 2015November 24, 2015

Join us in supporting young scholars at this special STAR Program research seminar! Suravi Nahar and Raqibul Mollah are graduating seniors at the Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School and have been working with the USC I... read more →

Assessing changes in HIV-related legal, policy environments in Sub-Saharan Africa

Posted on April 23, 2015August 16, 2018

This month Dr. Laura Ferguson presented at the Southern California Law and Social Science Conference on Regulation, Law and Social Science sponsored by the Southern California Legal Empirical Studies (SCELS), USC Price School... read more →

Reproductive and Sexual Rights: Changing Perspectives

Posted on April 23, 2015September 15, 2015

This month professor Sofia Gruskin delivered a talk entitled "Reproductive and Sexual Rights: Changing Perspectives from Cairo & Beijing (1990s) to Transgender Population & the International Classification of Diseases... read more →

Professor Gruskin nominated to PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board

Posted on April 23, 2015September 15, 2015

Professor Sofia Gruskin has been nominated to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPRAR) Scientific Advisory Board where, as a member of the board, she will provide ethical and technical advice and guidance to ... read more →

11/04/15 – HIV Decision Making and Linkages to Care: Research and Practice from Brazil

Posted on April 1, 2015August 21, 2018

Eliana Zucchi, MPH, and Sarah MacCarthy, DSc, will provide an overview of critical issues concerning HIV/AIDS in Brazil. Although Brazil is widely recognized for its successful response in making antiretroviral treatment free... read more →

Reproductive Justice and the Pace of Change: Socioeconomic Trends in US Infant Death Rates by Legal Status of Abortion, 1960-1980

Posted on April 1, 2015August 21, 2018

US infant death rates for 1960 to 1980 declined most quickly in (1) 1970 to 1973 in states that legalized abortion in 1970, especially for infants in the lowest 3 income quintiles (annual percentage change = −11.6; 95% ... read more →

Helping others on a global scale

Posted on April 1, 2015December 16, 2015

Graduate students at three USC schools won the fourth annual USC Global Health Case Competition. The annual competition organized by the USC Institute for Global Health featured a challenge addressing the social impact of ... read more →