Health and Human Rights Syllabi Database
The database provides an up to date listing of syllabi from institutions and organizations providing health and human rights education in academic settings.
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The Program on International Health and Human Rights promotes practical and effective responses to global public health challenges through the innovative application of human rights. This is done through a combination of research, capacity building, policy development and health programming in a variety of areas focusing on HIV/AIDS, reproductive and sexual health, and child and adolescent health.
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PIHHR Project Manager, Dina Bogecho, presents to UNFPA staff from across Africa during the pilot testing and training of trainers for, "Human Rights- Based Approaches to Programming: A Practical Implementation Manual." The workshop was held in Akosombo, Ghana in November 2007 and was co-hosted by PIHHR, the Culture, Gender and Human Rights Branch of the UNFPA Technical Support Division (CGHRB), and the pan-African network -Women in Law and Development, Africa (WiLDAF)
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September 2008 Date, time, and location TBD
Presentation by PIHHR Director Sofia Gruskin and PIHHR Research Manager Laura Ferguson
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The Global Response to HIV: Trends in Attention to Human Rights"
Field test of the Child Rights Checklist for the Development of CAH Tools and Documents
In February 2008, PIHHR Program Manager Zyde Raad conducted a field test of the Child Rights Checklist for the Development of CAH Tools and Documents as part of an evaluation of the national child health program in Georgetown, Guyana, in conjunction with WHO/CAH, Pan American Health Organization, and Guyana Minstry of Health. This checklist tool designed by PIHHR is to be used by WHO staff or consultants to systematically and practically integrate relevant Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) norms and standards as they draft and revise their own tools, guidelines, and other documents. The field test validated the added value of the checklist tool in terms of guiding the systematic consideration of the following issues when conducting child health program reviews in countries: participation of key actors and dissemination of review findings to relevant stakeholders; budgeting and costing for child health; programming for vulnerable sub-groups of children; vital registration systems; and the legal and policy environment more generally. To read the report, click here.
Vietnam AIDS Policy and Planning Project, senior level trainings in Can Tho and An Giang Provinces, Vietnam
In January 2008, Sofia Gruskin participated in senior level trainings in Can Tho and An Giang provinces in VietNam as a part of the Vietnam AIDS Policy and Planning Project. The goal of the training was to develop the capacity of government officials, including those from inside and outside the health sector, to respond successfully to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The training builds on ongoing efforts supporting VietNams political leaders to put in place effective planning and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for an effective rights-based and multi-sectoral AIDS response, including the contributions of NGOs, civil society and the private sector. The course curriculum has been developed by a team of Boston based faculty from PIHHR, Boston University’s Center for International Health and Development, Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Medical School’s Division of AIDS, and Abt Associates of Cambridge.
