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The Global Right to Health: Successes & Failures in the Fight Against Hate

Posted on September 14, 2018February 13, 2019

The USC Law & Global Health Collaboration hosted a presentation by Anand Grover, renowned Senior Advocate to the Supreme Court of India and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, at USC on Oct. ... read more →

From Laws and Standards to Implementation of Interventions in Global Health: Human Rights in Praxis

Posted on September 14, 2018March 21, 2019

The USC Law & Global Health Collaboration, as part of the 2018-2019 Global(HEALTH+LAW) Series, explored sexual and reproductive health and rights: a discussion of human rights policy and action led by Rajat Khosla, Seni... read more →

Sustainable Development Goals, HIV & Human Rights: Advancing Equality, Inclusion and Justice

Posted on August 8, 2018January 3, 2019

In this Aug. 29 lecture, Director of the United Nations Development Programme’s HIV, Health and Development Group Mandeep Dhaliwal presented on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, HIV and human rights with commentary prov... read more →

“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 →

Using Civic Imagination to Resist: Envisioning A Future With Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Posted on March 13, 2018April 4, 2019

2017-2018 Global (Health+Law) Series, April 18, 2018 “Using Civic Imagination to Resist: Envisioning A Future With Sexual and Reproductive Rights” took place on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at the University of Southern Cal... read more →

Reproductive Justice in the Era of Backlash

Posted on February 5, 2018August 22, 2018

The second session of the Spring 2018 semester of the USC Law & Global Health Collaboration focused on reproductive health. Professor Michele Goodwin, who holds the Chancellor’s Professorship at the University of Califo... read more →

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 →

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 →

Trump’s policies could ravage global health progress, experts say

Posted on September 27, 2017April 4, 2019

USC event series examines potential health consequences of the current U.S. administration (more…)... read more →

Fake News and Censorship: Twin Challenges for Law and Global Health in the Digital Age

Posted on September 19, 2017August 22, 2018

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression as well as Professor of Law at University of California Irvine, David Kaye presented on the implications of the Trump administration’s policies on selec... read more →

Sponsored by the USC Provost’s Office Research Collaboration Fund, the USC Law & Global Health Collaboration advances scholarship and provides monthly lectures and public discussions at the intersection of law and global health. Professor Sofia Gruskin, director of the Institute for Global Health, leads this collaboration alongside USC Gould Professor of Law and Medicine Alexander Capron and USC Research Professor and Associate Dean of Research Charles Kaplan from the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.