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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 11h

🌏 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

Climate change: Seeking bipartisan solutions during turbulent times

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 2d

📣 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

Photo of printed issues of the Health and Human Rights journal.

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 8d

📢 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

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 9d

🎙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

Special guest alert! Disrupting Peace, Susan Bissell, BA, MA, PhD. I'll be discussing the "First Steps to a Peaceful Childhood for All" on the Disrupting Peace podcast. Dropping September 30th! Tune in on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 12d

💡 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

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 14d

📣 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

Child protection certificate program. Are you passionate about child protection? The FXB Center’s Child Protection Certificate Program (CPC) is a pioneering initiative that offers Harvard graduate students a unique, interdisciplinary qualification in child protection and equips future professionals with essential tools and perspectives. Courses integrate diverse sectors such as health, education, social services, and law enforcement. Apply now! hsph.me/FXB-CPC

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 19d

📢 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

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 20d

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

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 21d

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

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 22d

📣 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

FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 23d

📢 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

Logos: FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University, Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University Department of English, Harvard History Department. The Message: A book talk with author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates. Wednesday, September 24, 2025. 6:00pm-7:00pm EDT. Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall. Harvard ID required. Register: Hsph.me/the-message. Doors open at 5:30.

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 27d

📢 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

"Phenomenal: The topics, instructors, and the learning environment were all harmonized, permitting a holistic understanding of the child protection field." G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training program participant.

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · 29d

📝 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

Canadian Roma: A People Uncounted

www.travellerstimes.org.uk

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Sep 4

📣 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

FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Aug 29

📣 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

FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 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

Group photo of 2025 Landry program cohort on the steps of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Aug 22

Note: The final version of the Halifax Declaration, following the conference 2025 International Refugee and Migration Health Conference, was published in @thelancet.com and can be read here: tinyurl.com/2s4k34hr

FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Aug 22

💡 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

Race-based pulmonary-function test (PFT) guidelines were taught to clinicians for decades, despite questions about their validity and implications of use. Within medicine, a growing consensus gradually emerged for ending inaccurate and imprecise uses of race as a standalone proxy for biologic or genetic traits. Significant gaps persist, however, in implementation of race-neutral PFT equations in the United States and worldwide, because race has long been embedded in PFT interpretation. The path to universally equitable evaluation of occupational pulmonary-function impairment—and to remedying the harms of previous race-based approaches—will benefit from further engagement with patients, medical societies, regulatory bodies, payers, researchers, and clinicians.” Rohan Khazanchi, MD, MPH, FXB Affiliate

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Aug 15

🌍 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

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Aug 14

#Children in the criminal justice system have complex physical and mental #health needs, often exacerbated by incarceration. Tess Kelly and team published a paper on @ameracadpeds.bsky.social to highlight major policy gaps & inform advocacy to improve healthcare access.

Read ➡️ tinyurl.com/mv69t96f

"Current standards for access to medical care in state juvenile confinement facilities are insufficient to address the urgent and unmet health needs of incarcerated youth. There is a need for strengthened standards enshrined in state and federal law, which are more durable than policy or administrative code, along with legislated monitoring and oversight frameworks. These measures are crucial to ensuring that incarcerated youth receive at least the same standard of care as their peers in the community.” Tess L. Kelly, Joshua Dankoff, Elizabeth Barnert
“Minimum Standards for Medical Care of Youth Incarcerated Across the United States” Pediatrics, July 21, 2025

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Aug 2

On August 2, we commemorate Sinti and Roma Holocaust victims. FXB Director of the Roma Program for Health and Human Rights, @magdamatache.bsky.social, wrote about her experiences researching this old trope and its consequences on Al Jazeera: tinyurl.com/yfxse24f

2024 report: hsph.me/Roma-Canada

While some official statements and ceremonies that commemorate the Holocaust acknowledge its Roma and Sinti victims – such as during the recent 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz – many institutions still depict and distance them as part of a separate genocide or as “other victims” of Nazi regimes. In part, this stems from the racist myth of criminality that accompanied the campaign of mass extermination of Romani people and the telling of history afterwards. Margareta Matache, PhD, Lecturer, Director of the FXB Center Roma Program for Health and Human Rights. “Allowing racist tropes about Romani people to persist is dangerous” Al Jazeera Opinion, 2025

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Jul 31

🌍 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

Flier: Applications are now open for the Global COACH Fellowship.

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Jul 30

July 30 is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons: tinyurl.com/5j9w5fev

Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc, explains that #trafficking is inevitable when #migration is not a choice but, rather, a survival necessity that abuts against ruthless exclusionary measures.

Poverty, lack of opportunity, social disintegration following conflict, gender inequality and its omnipresence, all correlate with domestic and child sexual abuse. The indomitable human search for survival and self-advancement opportunities are central drivers of human trafficking. Until the inevitable reality of mixed motives for migration is acknowledged in border control implementation in practice – the intertwining within irregular child migrant flows of persecution by the trafficker and economic aspiration by the child migrant or his or her family – the response to child trafficking is unlikely to progress into an effective tool for child protection. Bhabha, J. (2014). “Targeting the Right Issue: Trafficked Children and the Human Rights Imperative,” in Child Migration & Human Rights in a Global Age. Princeton University Press.

FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Jul 30

July 30 is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons: tinyurl.com/5j9w5fev

Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc, explains that resolving #trafficking cannot just focus on punishing traffickers: demand for mobility driven by poverty, exploitation, and lack of better alternatives all need to be addressed.

The dominant theory explaining trafficking has gaps: the wrong framework leads to ineffective policies. Viewing trafficking as fueled by demand from exploiters, delivery by traffickers, supply of victims misses out a second equally crucial demand-delivery-supply chain. In this chain, demand comes from victims of structural inequality, who have no choice but to seek opportunity, escape, income, security and hope away from where they live and have a social support system. Delivery comes from migration professionals – smugglers and traffickers – who exploit the need for migration. Meanwhile, the supply of funds fueling this lucrative migration business comes from those waiting to prey on exploitable migrants. This perspective suggests that an additional set of anti-trafficking strategies is needed. Bhabha, J. (2014). “Targeting the Right Issue: Trafficked Children and the Human Rights Imperative,” in Child Migration & Human Rights in a Global Age. Princeton University Press.

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FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard @fxbharvard.bsky.social · Jul 23

🌍 2026 Global COACH applications are open! 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

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