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Tag: reproductive health

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Implication of the Trump Administration’s Policies on Law and Global Health: Evidence and Preliminary Reflections

Posted on August 31, 2017April 4, 2019
Parveen Parmar, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of International Emergency Medicine and also Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Keck Medical Center of USC, presented on the Trump administration’s impacts o... read more →

Is populism bad for women’s rights?

Posted on June 5, 2017August 21, 2018
Experts reflected and speculated about women's rights and reproductive justice under the rule of populist leaders at a University of Geneva event May 17. (more…)... read more →
Reproductive Justice for All

Defunding Planned Parenthood is a violation of women’s reproductive rights

Posted on April 14, 2017August 25, 2018
In her editorial published in The Hill, Mellissa Withers, assistant professor of clinical preventive medicine, describes the reproductive health consequences of replacing the Affordable Care Act, as well as the irony in Presi... read more →

Human rights and the sexual and reproductive health of women living with HIV – a literature review

Posted on December 1, 2015August 21, 2018
Introduction: Even as the number of women living with HIV around the globe continues to grow, realization of their sexual and reproductive health and human rights remains compromised. The objective of this study was to review... read more →

New WHO tool examines reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and human rights

Posted on July 23, 2014August 21, 2018
This month the WHO published the first module of "Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and human rights: a toolbox for examining laws, regulations and policies." The result of a decade-long collaboration, the firs... read more →

Realizing the ICPD 20 years later

Posted on July 23, 2014August 21, 2018
Professors Sofia Gruskin and TK Sundari Ravindran published an article this month on behalf of the Rights-Oriented Research and Education (RORE) Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Global Public Health entitled Real... read more →

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