Post Tagged with: "global health"

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  Cooperation and global health

  August 4, 2016 by Farren Yero Throughout the last two weeks in the archive, the records I’ve encountered have challenged my understanding of what Cold War international health looked like at […]

   
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  A Suitable Candidate for Global Eradication

  July 25, 2016 by Farren Yero On June 24, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson received a letter from the former director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Fred […]

   
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  Citizens, Science and Health Social Movements: Moving Upstream to Advance Environmental Justice In and Out of the Classroom

  Rachel Morello-Frosch is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley working in the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management. Her research focuses on environmental health and justice, […]

   
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  Beyond the Brink: Addressing Human Health and Security in a Changing Climate

  Hosted by DGHI and the Student International Discussion Group, this symposium will examine the impacts, implications, and adaptations related to global climate change. Leaders in the field will explore questions […]

   
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  Brazil: Globalization and Modern-Day Slavery

  Binka Le Breton is a writer, environmentalist and human rights activist. Her latest book is Where the Road Ends: a Home in the Brazilian Rainforest She has authored numerous other books, including The Greatest Gift: The […]

   
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  Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Healthcare

  Historian John Dittmer tells the story of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, a group of health care professionals active not only in the Deep South at the height of […]

   
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  Cambodian Responses to the Khmer Rouge Trials: Justice, Desire for Revenge and PTSD

  After years of impunity for perpetrators of the Cambodian genocide, a joint United Nations-Cambodian tribunal was recently launched to try senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge. But what effect do human rights […]

   
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