FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard
The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard is dedicated to the inextricable link between health and human rights. Learn more: fxb.harvard.edu. Stay in touch: tinyurl.com/3r958p2f.
- Commemorate Human Rights Day by joining our fireside chat on war and the public's health with Dr. Barry Levy & FXB Visiting Scientist @yara-asi.bsky.social. FXB Director Dr. Mary Bassett will deliver opening remarks. 🗓️ Dec. 10 | 1pm-2pm ET 📍 Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room ➡️ hsph.me/Peace-Health
- 📣 Just published: The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism:(Un)uttered Sentences by FXB Roma Program Director @magdamatache.bsky.social! Pre-order on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh Read a short excerpt on Foreign Policy in Focus: tinyurl.com/4nzfx59w
- Commemorate Human Rights Day by joining our fireside chat on war and the public's health with Dr. Barry Levy & FXB Visiting Scientist @yara-asi.bsky.social. FXB Director Dr. Mary Bassett will deliver opening remarks. 🗓️ Dec. 10 | 1pm-2pm ET 📍 Jonathan M. Mann Conference Room ➡️ hsph.me/Peace-Health
- 📣 Join us on Zoom at 1pm ET on Dec. 8 to hear FXB Director Dr. Mary Bassett and Research Scientist Dr. Brittney Francis talk about their experiences attending the 2025 2nd Africa-CARICOM Summit on Reparations. Moderated by FXB Research Associate Dr. Serhat Yildirim. Register: hsph.me/CARICOM
- Excited to head to @fxbharvard.bsky.social next week to talk about Peace and the Public's Health to commemorate World Human Rights Day. To register, visit: <https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aWq4qcQ94il8hJs>
- 📢 Would you like to join our team? We are looking for an Executive Assistant & Administrative Coordinator! This full-time, hybrid-format position requires excellent communication & interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to effectively multi-task. Details: hsph.me/Join-Us
- 🎤 Tune in to Day 2 of the MEMOROBIA conference! Coming up are a panel discussion on the role of the arts in remembering the history of Roma slavery and a conversation on documenting and remembering Roma slavery: tinyurl.com/2uaw7ja5
- 📣 Live now! FXB's Roma Program Director, Dr. @magdamatache.bsky.social has just launched her new book, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences" during the MEMOROBIA conference: tinyurl.com/6w9bj9wt More information about the book: tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh
- 🎤 Watch the MEMOROBIA conference live now! This event features leading voices in the fields of history, education, memory & arts and concludes the research project MEMOROBIA: Memorialization of Romani Enslavement in the Territories of Contemporary Romania, co-led by Dr. @magdamatache.bsky.social.
- 💡FXB Executive Director Jehane Sedky reflects on "The Price of Resilience" in @wbur.org's Cognoscenti. Focus has shifted to measuring how much suffering can be endured—without asking whether #health systems are becoming stronger, inequality narrower, or rights fulfilled. Read ➡️ tinyurl.com/uhbbv2zj
- November 20, World Children’s Day is a global day of action for children & by children, marking the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The CRC serves as a crosscutting, guiding theme for FXB's work as several of its articles are directly connected to each of our programs.
- 📢 Have you registered yet? Join us for the MEMOROBIA Conference to hear @magdamatache.bsky.social, FXB Roma Program Director, present her upcoming book, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences. November 24–25, 2025, hybrid format. Agenda and registration: hsph.me/MEMOROBIA
- Inherited trauma, inherited equity: Reparations as a determinant of health Dr. L’Bertrice Solomon, LP.D., JD, MPH, MMSc, and FXB Director, Dr. Mary Bassett, MD, MPH, will explore the intersection of reparative justice & racial trauma’s legacy. 🗓️ Nov. 19 | 1-2pm EST 📍 Zoom: hsph.me/inherited-trauma
- 📢 Are you a mid-career professional working to protect #children from abuse, violence, exploitation & neglect? Consider applying for the 2026 G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training program! Deadline: Dec. 1, 2025 Application: hsph.me/FXB-LandryCP The program's founding vision ↘️
- Harvard Chan C-CHANGE is headed to #COP30! Our dir @maryrice-lungdr.bsky.social is in Belém centering #health in climate conversations by making the case that health benefits are primary reasons to accelerate the clean energy transition. Find us at COP: salatainstitute.harvard.edu/harvard-at-c...
- 📢 Would you like to join our team? We are looking for an Executive Assistant & Administrative Coordinator! This full-time, hybrid-format position requires excellent communication & interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to effectively multi-task. Details: hsph.me/Join-Us
- 💡This year's @apha.org annual meeting is wrapping up today so we leave you with APHA TV's video about the FXB Center’s mission and scholarship. FXB was selected as one of the featured partners in the 2025 Thought Leadership Film Series: tinyurl.com/2u55wd8v
- 💡 Are you at the 2025 @apha.org Annual Meeting? Stop by "Violations of Human Rights: Analyzing Immigration Challenges in the United States and Around the World" right now to hear about research by Distress Migration Program Director Dr. Vasileia Digidiki. More information: tinyurl.com/zc43t97b
- 💡 Are you attending the 2025 @apha.org annual meeting? Director of the FXB Center Program on Immigrants and Unhoused Communities, Dr. Margaret (Maggie) Sullivan Sullivan, FNP-BC, DrPH, FAAN, will be presenting TODAY, November 3, 2025 from 3:30pm-3:45pm. More information: tinyurl.com/yc269j2u
- 🥂 Congratulations to FXB Visiting Scholar Dr. Jumana Odeh on the 2025 @apha.org Disability Section Health Equity Award! Her Palestinian Happy Child Centre & “Happy Child” model, created more than 30 years ago, grew into a replicable framework for community-based disability care across the region.
- 📢 Would you like to join our team? We are looking for an Executive Assistant & Administrative Coordinator! This full-time, hybrid-format position requires excellent communication & interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to effectively multi-task. Details: hsph.me/Join-Us
- 💡How can we diagnose, treat, and prevent violence against children, as if it were a disease? Nandana Sen joined us for a wide-ranging discussion to mark the publication of "Protecting the World’s Children: Public Health, Human Rights, Capabilities," co-edited by FXB Senior Fellow Susan Bissell!
- 📢 When #COVID19 was declared a pandemic, it triggered a wave of aid commitments. An analysis of donor funding revealed profound disconnect between reality and the rhetoric of global solidarity. Read @thelancet.com commentary by FXB's Jehane Sedky, Abbey Gardner & Louise Ivers: tinyurl.com/bddp5zvf
- 📢 Would you like to join our team? We are looking for an Executive Assistant & Administrative Coordinator! This full-time, hybrid-format position requires excellent communication & interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to effectively multi-task. Details: hsph.me/Join-Us
- 📢 Are you a mid-career professional working to protect #children from abuse, violence, exploitation & neglect? Consider applying for the 2026 G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training program! Deadline: Dec. 1, 2025 Application: hsph.me/FXB-LandryCP The program's founding vision ↘️
- 📣 Have you signed up for our flagship publication's email list? Register to receive notifications from @hhrjournal.bsky.social about #humanrights updates, new journal issues, papers, and weekly news bulletins: tinyurl.com/4dzdwxx8 📑 Read the journal: www.hhrjournal.org
- 🚸 Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on addressing violence against #children with FXB Senior Fellow Dr. Susan Bissell, co-editor of "Protecting the World’s Children: Public Health, Human Rights, Capabilities." 🗓️ Oct. 28, 2025 | 2-5pm ET 📍Thompson Room, Barker Center ➡️ hsph.me/Children
- 💡FXB Director, Dr. Mary Bassett, joined FXB Research Scientist, Dr. Brittney Francis, to discuss the meaning of #health #equity and reparations as a possible intervention towards achieving it. Catch a glimpse: tinyurl.com/4952etke Subscribe to Higher Ed with Dr. B Fran: tinyurl.com/3hbkvwer
- 📣 Know our rights: Legal updates for immigrant health Join us for a virtual update on #immigration law and policy with Massachusetts healthcare partners Susan Church, Office for Refugees and Immigrants & Heather Yountz, MA Law Reform Institute. 🗓️ Oct. 16 | 2-3pm ET 📍 Zoom ➡️ tinyurl.com/3xybhkuf
- October 11 is the #DayOfTheGirl and marks 30 years since the Beijing Declaration - our blueprint for gender equality: tinyurl.com/4c5sa928 Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc, and Vasileia Digidiki, MSc, PhD, wrote about the protection chasm in contemporary child migration: tinyurl.com/34urdxax
- October 11 is the #DayOfTheGirl and marks 30 years since the Beijing Declaration - our blueprint for gender equality: tinyurl.com/4c5sa928 FXB Center Senior Fellow Susan Bissell coedited a book exploring the protection of children and girls in our increasingly tumultuous world: tinyurl.com/34urdxax
- 📢 Are you a mid-career professional working to protect #children from abuse, violence, exploitation & neglect? Consider applying for the 2026 G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training program! Deadline: Dec. 1, 2025 Application: hsph.me/FXB-LandryCP Hear from past participants ↘️
- 📣 Know our rights: Legal updates for immigrant health Join us for a virtual update on #immigration law and policy with Massachusetts healthcare partners Susan Church, Office for Refugees and Immigrants & Heather Yountz, MA Law Reform Institute. 🗓️ Oct. 16 | 2-3pm ET 📍 Zoom ➡️ tinyurl.com/3xybhkuf
- 🌏 Did you catch the @hsph.harvard.edu webinar on addressing #climate change? During a conversation moderated by FXB Faculty Affiliate @gaurabbasu.bsky.social, Gina McCarthy and Bob Inglis discussed solutions and explored opportunities to work across political divides. Watch ➡️ tinyurl.com/39xz6nd2
- 📣 Have you signed up for our flagship publication's email list? Register to receive notifications from @hhrjournal.bsky.social about updates, new issues, papers, and weekly news bulletins: tinyurl.com/4dzdwxx8 📑 Read the journal: www.hhrjournal.org
- 📢 Applications are open to three-member regional/country teams for the weeklong June 2026 G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training for mid-career professionals who work to protect #children from abuse, violence, exploitation, and neglect. Apply by Dec. 1, 2025: hsph.me/FXB-LandryCP
- 🎙Disrupting Peace explores why peace hasn't worked and how it still could. Tomorrow, World Peace Foundation's research director Bridget Conley, FXB Senior Fellow Susan Bissell & Dr. Catherine Panter-Brick, discuss war's impact on DNA, resilience, and steps to help kids globally: tinyurl.com/53259vaz
- 💡 We have made enormous strides in elucidating pathways by which past legacies and present realities of racial injustice shape inequities in #health and health care. In NEJM.org, Drs. Nancy Krieger & Mary Bassett discuss duty to fund work on how structural racism harms health ➡️ tinyurl.com/3z44bnap
- 📣 Are you a @harvard.edu graduate student, passionate about child protection? Apply by 9/29 for our 2025-2026 #Child Protection Certificate program! This interdisciplinary program incorporates ongoing child protection research and practice grounded in field-based realities. Details: hsph.me/FXB-CPC
- 📢 Applications are open to three-member regional/country teams for the weeklong June 2026 G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training for mid-career professionals who work to protect #children from abuse, violence, exploitation & neglect. Apply by Dec. 1, 2025: hsph.me/FXB-LandryCP
- Dr. Satchit Balsari has been working at the intersection of migration and #climatechange as environmental and climate conditions trigger displacement ➡️ tinyurl.com/4h69db9b To that end, Harvard #Climate Action Week explores actions to enhance resilience to a changing climate ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh9bsdzu
- The 2025 Harvard #Climate Action Week is underway and FXB Faculty Affiliate @gaurabbasu.bsky.social and his team have been working towards organizing and empowering health professionals to advance solutions. Read more on @aamc.org ➡️ tinyurl.com/58ch48s5 This week's events ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh9bsdzu
- 📣 Are you a @harvard.edu graduate student, passionate about child protection? Apply now for our 2025-2026 #Child Protection Certificate program! This interdisciplinary program incorporates ongoing child protection research and practice grounded in field-based realities. Details: hsph.me/FXB-CPC
- 📢 Join us to hear Ta-Nehisi Coates, discuss his latest book, The Message. Introductory remarks: FXB Director Dr. Mary Bassett, MD, MPH. Moderator: Professor of English Namwali Serpell, PhD. 🗓️ Sept. 24, 2025 📍 Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall. Harvard ID required. ⏱️ 6pm-7pm EDT. ➡️ hsph.me/The-Message
- 📢 Applications are open for the weeklong June 2026 G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training for mid-career professionals who work to protect #children from abuse, violence, exploitation & neglect. Applicants must apply as country teams of three by Dec. 1, 2025: hsph.me/FXB-LandryCP
- 📝 Have you read our Roma Program report, co-authored by its Director, Dr. @magdamatache.bsky.social, examining everyday discrimination experienced by Roma community in Canada's Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area? Read the overview featured on Travellers Times below! Full report ➡️ hsph.me/Roma-Canada
- 📣 Are you a @harvard.edu graduate student, passionate about child protection? Apply now for our 2025-2026 #Child Protection Certificate program! This interdisciplinary program incorporates ongoing child protection research and practice grounded in field-based realities. Details: hsph.me/FXB-CPC
- 📣 Are you a Harvard University graduate student, passionate about child protection? Apply for our 2025-2026 #Child Protection Certificate program! This interdisciplinary program incorporates ongoing child protection research and practice grounded in field-based realities. Apply: hsph.me/FXB-CPC
- 📢 Applications are open for the weeklong June 2026 G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training for mid-career professionals who work to protect #children from abuse, violence, exploitation & neglect. Applicants must apply as country teams of three by Dec. 1, 2025: hsph.me/FXB-LandryCP
- 💡 FXB Affiliate and #health #equity advocate @rohankhaz.bsky.social and his team published a study on @nejm.org describing the history of how race and pulmonary function testing quantify lung function impairment and outlining a path toward more equitable evaluations. Read ➡️ tinyurl.com/49sahazm
- 🌍 Have you applied to the 2026 Global COACH? Apply in teams of 3 to this tuition-free 6-month program for #health professionals working at the climate-health intersection to gain organizing skills, mentorship & a certificate from the FXB Center. ➡️ fxb.harvard.edu/global-coach/ #ClimateHealth
