October 2015 Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

USC to partner on air pollution and health study in Eastern Africa

Posted on October 13, 2015January 7, 2016

We are honored to be working with Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia to develop the newly funded GEOHealth Network as part of the Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub—one of seven hubs around the world. Over the next five years, U.... read more →

Operationalizing Human Rights in Efforts to Improve Health

Posted on October 2, 2015August 21, 2018

Professors Laura Ferguson's and Sofia's Gruskin’s publication came out this October in the 34th volume of the Knowledge Summary on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health. "Operationalizing human rights in efforts... read more →

WHO meets on equity, human rights and gender

Posted on October 2, 2015August 21, 2018

In October Professor Sofia Gruskin traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, to attend a WHO meeting on equity, human rights, gender and social determinants of health. As part of WHO’s efforts to further its mandate of mainstreamin... read more →

WHO experts convene to discuss contraception care guidelines

Posted on October 2, 2015August 21, 2018

Professor Laura Ferguson joined World Health Organization experts this week for a meeting to discuss strengthening contraceptive programs through the development of a rights-based quality assessment tool. The objectives o... read more →

Global Noncommunicable Disease Research: Opportunities and Challenges

Posted on October 2, 2015November 13, 2015

The Annals of Internal Medicine published a new paper, “Global Noncommunicable Disease Research: Opportunities and Challenges," in August. The article, which came out of a conference at Emory University last year, lays out... read more →

Aging and Health—A Landmark WHO Report

Posted on October 2, 2015August 21, 2018

On Sept. 30, the International Day of Older Persons, the World Health Organization released the 2015 World Report on Ageing and Health. The report compiles and summarizes the best available global evidence to examine how coun... read more →

10/09/15 – Sexuality, Health, and Human Rights: Fulfilling the Promise of Health & Human Rights for All

Posted on September 8, 2015August 21, 2018

We are at an important crossroads in the global struggle for sexual and gender-related human rights. This event will bring together trailblazing academics, policymakers and activists who continue to pioneer this historic move... read more →

New project uses human rights to strengthen family planning programs

Posted on September 4, 2015August 21, 2018

This month the Program on Global Health & Human Rights commenced a new project with the World Health Organization focused on the human rights aspects of monitoring, evaluation and accountability for family planning progra... read more →

10/16/15 – Universities Allied for Essential Medicines Conference

Posted on August 11, 2015August 11, 2015

The UAEM conference is an opportunity to inspire, educate, skills-build and mobilize students from a variety of disciplines to become part of something bigger and act now on the access to medicines crisis at their universitie... read more →