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Health and Human Rights in This Moment

Posted on June 10, 2020June 18, 2020

The United Nations defines human rights as “rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.” We are all equally entitled to these h... read more →

The Need for Human Rights in this Global Pandemic

Posted on June 3, 2020June 18, 2020

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (USC IIGH) has witnessed how harmful COVID-19 is to highly vulnerable populations worldwide, including the elderly, the sick, the poor, the criminalized, sexual an... read more →

APRU Global Health Held an Insightful Webinar on Bioethics and COVID-19

Posted on June 2, 2020June 18, 2020

Bioethics has been and will continue to be a key consideration during the COVID-19 crisis, as the pandemic has brought to light chronic injustices such as homelessness, and increases in discrimination and intimate partner vi... read more →

A Global Conversation in a Difficult Time

Posted on March 24, 2020June 18, 2020

In 2018 when I accepted the mission of leading USC’s Institute for Global Health, now the Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (USC IIGH), my primary focus was twofold. First, how can we work with stakeholders, educa... read more →

Present IIGH and UNDP work reflects the long-term impacts of global collaboration

Posted on March 20, 2020June 18, 2020

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health team has been working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in sub-Saharan Africa on a series of evaluations relating to projects addressing the legal environ... read more →

USC IIGH Engages in Partnership Building in Kenya

Posted on March 20, 2020June 18, 2020

The leadership of the USC Institute for Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH) team has developed relationships and partnerships around the world for more than two decades on a range of critical global health issues. That expe... read more →

Upgrade needed for universities’ workplace wellness programs, new APRU survey shows

Posted on January 14, 2020January 14, 2020

APRU Global Health Program released its latest report on Workplace Wellness (WW) finding that although many universities have implemented a range of programs designed to promote employee health and well-being, thes... read more →

Reflections on 25 Years of Health and Human Rights: History, Context, and the Need for Strategic Action

Posted on December 10, 2019April 17, 2020

Read » Details: Author: Sofia Gruskin JD, MIA,Published By: Health and Human Rights Journal Date: February, 2020Publication Link: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305497 ... read more →

Understanding perspectives and lived experiences of at-risk Taiwanese teenage boys through photovoice

Posted on December 9, 2019

Victor Hsiao, Sunya Chen and USC's Dr. Mellissa Withers, associate professor of clinical preventive medicine, discuss the use of photovoice in understanding lived experience of at risk youth in Taiwan in an article published ... read more →

Social Media Platforms Help Promote Human Trafficking

Posted on December 5, 2019December 9, 2019

USC's Dr. Mellissa Withers, associate professor of clinical preventive medicine, discusses the role social media plays in facilitating violence against women and ways in which it can be stopped. Read » Details: Author: ... read more →