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In transition: Ensuring the sexual and reproductive health and rights of transgender populations

“In transition: ensuring the sexual and reproductive health and rights of transgender populations.” A roundtable discussion

Posted on August 2, 2018April 4, 2019
This roundtable discussion is the result of a research symposium entitled In Transition: Gender [Identity], Law & Global Health where participants took up the challenge to engage with the question: What will it take to ... read more →

Sexual and reproductive health and rights for all: translating the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission’s global report to local action

Posted on July 3, 2018May 2, 2019
The Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights brought renewed vision and revived thinking around sexual and reproductive health and rights in a time of backsliding progress. In this R... read more →

The how: a message for the UN high-level meeting on NCDs

Posted on June 28, 2018May 2, 2019
This September's UN General Assembly high-level meeting (HLM) on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) provides a strategic opportunity to propel the response—from “where do we want to be” to “how do we get there”. (... read more →

Postpartum depression in Mongolia: A qualitative exploration of health care providers’ perspectives

Posted on June 23, 2018May 2, 2019
An estimated 16 percent of pregnant women and 20 percent of postpartum women in low- and middle-income countries experience depression. In a qualitative study published in the journal Midwifery, researchers sought to explain ... read more →

From evidence to action: challenges for the Brazilian Unified National Health System in offering pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV to persons with the greatest vulnerability

Posted on May 2, 2018May 2, 2019
Pre-exposure sexual prophylaxis (PrEP) has been considered strategic and promising in controlling the HIV epidemic globally. However, it is necessary to transpose the knowledge accumulated by efficacy and demonstration studie... read more →

Assessing changes in HIV-related legal and policy environments: Lessons learned from a multi-country evaluation

Posted on February 23, 2018May 2, 2019
There is growing recognition in the health community that the legal environment—including laws, policies, and related procedures—impacts vulnerability to HIV and access to HIV-related services both positively and negative... read more →
Patient education session, Uganda.

A novel methodology for strengthening human rights based monitoring in public health: Family planning indicators as an illustrative example

Posted on December 8, 2017August 25, 2018
The last few years have seen a rise in the number of global and national initiatives that seek to incorporate human rights into public health practice. Nonetheless, a lack of clarity persists regarding the most appropriat... read more →

Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United States vital statistics and news-media-based data sources: A capture–recapture analysis

Posted on October 18, 2017August 25, 2018
Official death certificates in the U.S. failed to count more than half of the people killed by police in 2015 -- and the problem of undercounting is especially pronounced in lower-income counties and for deaths that are due t... read more →

Killed by Police: Validity of Media-Based Data and Misclassification of Death Certificates in Massachusetts, 2004–2016

Posted on September 28, 2017August 25, 2018
Professor Sofia Gruskin and co-authors published an article, “Killed by Police: Validity of Media-Based Data and Misclassification of Death Certificates in Massachusetts, 2004–2016,” in the American Journal of Public He... read more →

Engaging Human Rights in the Evolving Zika Virus Epidemic

Posted on February 16, 2017August 25, 2018
In late 2015, an increase in the number of infants born with microcephaly in poor communities in northeast Brazil prompted investigation of antenatal Zika infection as the cause. Public health officials, policymakers, and in... read more →

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