USC Institute for Global Health Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Professor Gruskin appointed to transgender health, human rights group

Posted on July 23, 2015September 15, 2015

Professor Sofia Gruskin was appointed to the advisory board of Transforming Ourselves Through Organizing, and Services (TOD@S), a research partnership in the field of transgender health and human rights. The group is spearhea... read more →

GHHR contributes to UN human rights discussion of the right to life

Posted on July 23, 2015January 11, 2016

Professor Sofia Gruskin and GHHR legal fellow Ian Henry submitted a contribution to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHR) Secretariat in preparation for the July 14 Half-Day of General Discussion on the ... read more →

Lessons From Law & Health Programs in Kenya

Posted on July 23, 2015September 15, 2015

Professor Sofia Gruskin and co-authors published methodology and findings from conducting a human rights based evaluation in this month's New Directions for Evaluation. "Integrating Human Rights in Program Evaluation: Lessons... read more →

Partnership with Vietnam to integrate human rights in population law

Posted on July 23, 2015July 28, 2018

Through a longstanding relationship with Vietnam, Program on Global Health & Human Rights Director Sofia Gruskin began a new project in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). She will advise Vietnam... read more →

Indonesia project aims to increase access to justice, health, human rights

Posted on June 23, 2015February 25, 2016

The USC Program on Global Health & Human Rights has begun a new project with the Open Society Foundations focused on strengthening the capacity of and increasing access to justice for people who use drugs, with a special ... read more →

Dr. Ferguson assisting monitoring and evaluation in The Gambia

Posted on June 23, 2015January 5, 2016

This month Professor Laura Ferguson traveled to The Gambia to continue her ongoing work with the World Bank focused on maternal and child nutrition and health. The primary purpose of this trip was to assist the monitoring and... read more →

Professor Gruskin lectures for Heidelberg University, Germany

Posted on June 23, 2015September 15, 2015

This month Professor Sofia Gruskin lectured remotely for the Masters Program in International Health at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her session focused on the history, content and application of rights-based approaches in... read more →

New report targets discrimination, violence based on sexual orientation, gender identity

Posted on June 23, 2015September 15, 2015

This month the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a new report to the UN Human Rights Council on discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. The... read more →

Notions of punishment and justice

Posted on May 23, 2015September 15, 2015

A two-day USC conference in late April explored Austin Sarat’s Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty. "Execution, Spectacle, Law: A symposium on capital punishment with Austin Sarat" was orga... read more →

Changing Perspectives of Reproductive and Sexual Rights

Posted on May 23, 2015September 15, 2015

Professor Sofia Gruskin delivered a talk entitled "Reproductive and Sexual Rights: Changing Perspectives from Cairo & Beijing (1990s) to Transgender Population & the International Classification of Diseases (2015)," a... read more →