Shervan Sebastian Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Global Health and Human Rights under the New Administration: Steps to Set Priorities for our Collective Agenda

Posted on November 20, 2020April 2, 2021

The 2020 U.S. election season has been a highly charged, deeply emotional and, let’s be honest, entirely exhausting experience. Though elections serve as an opportunity for people to indicate their choice of candidates and... read more →

A Return to the Unfamiliar: A Time to Act

Posted on November 20, 2020August 18, 2022

As we cautiously but optimistically return to the slightest sense of normalcy in the first months of 2021, we are incredibly grateful to our friends, our partners and our colleagues for their critical engagement and support.... read more →

Getting to the Heart of Stigma: A Key Element of the Global AIDS Response

Posted on September 15, 2020August 18, 2022

March 1st was Global Zero Discrimination Day, a day created to remind us of the harm that stigma and discrimination, relating to HIV and other characteristics, continues to cause and the role that each of us has in tryi... read more →

SDG Leadership Academy: Update

Posted on June 17, 2020June 18, 2020

The USC IIGH SDG Leadership Academy, launched last week in partnership with the Office of the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, is providing an opportunity for our students to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (... read more →

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, 2020December 15, 2022

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, 2020December 15, 2022

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, 2020February 14, 2023

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 →