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Legal and Health Dimensions of Trump’s Immigration Policies: What is Happening and What We Can Do About It

Posted on January 13, 2018April 4, 2019

This first session of the Spring 2018 semester of the USC Law & Global Health Collaboration—Jan. 23— focused on the impacts of the Trump Administration’s immigration policies in Los Angeles and across the globe, and... read more →

Strengthening justice systems for sexual and reproductive health in Vietnam

Posted on December 18, 2017October 2, 2020

At the biennial Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights in Vietnam Nov. 27-30, Sofia Gruskin presented to more than 1,000 attendees at a plenary session on strengthening justice systems for sexual... read more →

Sofia Gruskin: We must follow California’s example and repeal archaic HIV laws

Posted on December 15, 2017January 7, 2019

California made national headlines when it repealed an HIV criminalization law and reduced penalties for exposing other people to the virus, writes Sofia Gruskin in her BMJ blog Dec. 15. She calls for other ... read more →

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 →

USC researchers develop method to monitor human rights in public health services

Posted on November 10, 2017August 21, 2018

New methodology strengthens public health monitoring using human rights (more…)... read more →

Global Perspectives on Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Across the Lifecourse

Posted on November 9, 2017May 2, 2019

A collection of research and experiences, the 2018 book Global Perspectives on Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Across the Lifecourse, spotlights pervasive issues affecting girls’ and women’s sexual and reproductive... read more →

United Nations group honors USC human rights leader

Posted on November 8, 2017August 21, 2018

Days after President Donald Trump first addressed the United Nations since taking office, UN supporters gathered to celebrate the organization—and to honor leaders including USC Professor of Preventive Medicine and Law Sofi... read more →

Implications of the Trump Administration’s Policies: Climate Change, Environment and Global Health

Posted on October 24, 2017April 4, 2019

Assistant Professor at Occidental College in the Urban and Environmental Policy Department, Mijin Cha, and Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health and also Chair of the Department of Children... 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 →

Baseline findings presented in Ghana

Posted on September 28, 2017August 21, 2018

Laura Ferguson, associate director of the USC Program on Global Health & Human Rights, returned to Ghana in September to discuss and present draft findings of the baseline assessment on human rights barriers to accessing ... read more →