Health and Human Rights: An International Journal

Health and Human Rights was first published in 1994 by the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. Founding Editor Jonathan Mann served as editor-in-chief through 1997. Sofia Gruskin served as associate editor in this period and then from 1997 through the end of 2006 as editor-in-chief. The Journal has been widely recognized as the intellectual cornerstone of the health and human rights field. Experts from around the world have contributed outstanding articles and commentaries on a variety of topics. Of particular note have been the thematic issues which provide special focus on assorted topics.

Special Focus Topics include:

Vol. 1, No. 4 : Women's Health and Human Rights
Vol. 2, No. 1 : Human Rights and Health Professionals
Vol. 2, No. 3 : 2nd International Conference on Health and Human Rights
Vol. 2, No. 4 : HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, Part I: The Roots of Vulnerability
Vol. 3, No. 1 : HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, Part II: Uprooting Vulnerability
Vol. 3, No. 2 : Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Vol. 4, No. 2 : Reproductive and Sexual Rights
Vol. 5, No. 2 : Children's Health and Children's Rights
Vol. 6, No. 2 : Violence, Health, and Human Rights
Vol. 7, No. 2 : Sexuality, Human Rights, and Health
Vol. 8, No. 2 : Emerging Issues in HIV/AIDS
Vol. 9, No. 2 : Rights-Based Approaches to Health

The full text of all back issues in the period when Sofia Gruskin served as editor can now be found on JSTOR.

Health and Human Rights is published in English, with abstracts translated into French and Spanish.

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