2018 Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

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 →

A Meta-Narrative Literature Synthesis and Framework to Guide Future Evaluation of Legal Empowerment Interventions

Posted on December 4, 2018May 2, 2019

In this paper, published in the Health and Human Rights Journal, authors Katherine Footer, Michael Windle, Laura Ferguson, Jordan Hatcher, Carrie Lyons, Emma Gorin, Anne L. Stangl, Steven Golub, Sofia Gruskin, and Stefan Bara... read more →

The recognition and evolution of the HIV and human rights interface: 1981–2017

Posted on November 30, 2018May 2, 2019

In this book chapter, published in the Research Handbook on Global Health Law, Sofia Gruskin and Daniel Tarantola discuss the linkages between health and human rights in relation to HIV, and describe a joint action and ac... read more →

Interpersonal Violence in Afghanistan—Beyond a Strictly Public Health Approach

Posted on November 7, 2018May 17, 2019

Reports document persistently high levels of interpersonal violence in Afghanistan. Much of this is concentrated in the most conflict-affected areas where systems of education, health, and justice are particularly weak. But ... read more →

Desert, Rainforest or Jungle: Navigating the Global Sexual Rights Landscape

Posted on November 3, 2018

In this chapter, published in the Sexuality Policy Watch e-book SexPolitics: Trends & Tensions in the 21st Century, authors Sofia Gruskin, Alice Miller, Jane Cottingham and Eszter Kismodi examine today's sexual rights co... read more →

The AIDS conference 2018: a critical moment

Posted on October 25, 2018May 2, 2019

Sofia Gruskin, director of the Institute for Global Health, and Julia Hussein, editor-in-chief of the journal Reproductive Health Matters, note the tenor changes of the annual International AIDS Conference since its inception... read more →

Trojan Scholar Spotlight: Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights at USC

Posted on October 23, 2018January 3, 2019

The USC Law & Global Health Collaboration hosted a panel to shine a light on some of the exemplary work happening right here at USC around sexual and reproductive health and rights, at USC on November 7, 2018. (more&h... read more →

The Health of the Foreign-Born in the United States: Advantages and Disparities

Posted on October 22, 2018April 4, 2019

The USC Institute for Global Health and The Community Scholars Collaborative for Health Equity Solutions (CHES) hosted hosted the lecture "The Health of the Foreign-Born in the United States: Advantages and Disparities" with ... read more →

Resource Kit: Ensuring the sexual and reproductive health and rights of transgender populations

Posted on October 8, 2018April 4, 2019

Following a 2017 symposium at the University of Southern California, the USC Law & Global Health Collaboration has produced several resources to further the discussion of sexual and reproductive health and rights of trans... read more →