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Physicians for Human Rights Student Program
Overcoming Climate Apathy in Medical Education
Overcoming Climate Apathy in Medical Education (Physicians for Human Rights Student Advisory Board, Climate Change Committee 2022-2023)...
PHR Student Advisory Board
Jan 9, 20245 min read
Statement on the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza and Israel
As medical students of PHR’s Student Advisory Board, we are committed to the promotion and advancement of human rights. This includes...
PHR Student Advisory Board
Oct 24, 20232 min read
Protecting Asylum-Seekers: Calling Attention to the Consequences of Electronic Ankle Monitoring
By Marie T. Mazzeo Every day, refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants leave the only homes they have ever known in search of a better...
PHR Student Advisory Board
May 8, 20235 min read
PHR Student Advisory Board Statement on Human Rights Violations in Iran
The Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Student Advisory Board (SAB) stands in solidarity with the people of Iran who are calling for the...
PHR Student Advisory Board
Oct 16, 20223 min read
PHR Student Advisory Board Statement on the Unfolding Crisis in Afghanistan
We, the students of the PHR National Student Advisory Board (SAB), are deeply heartbroken as we watch the events in Afghanistan unfold...
PHR Student Advisory Board
Sep 11, 20212 min read
Statement on Violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
May 28, 2021 In response to the disproportionate use of force by the Israeli government on Palestinians for protesting Israeli apartheid,...
PHR Student Advisory Board
Jun 5, 20212 min read
Oppose Global Vaccine Apartheid
The case for vaccinating the globe is evident — millions of lives are more important than pharmaceutical profits or intellectual property...
Rishab Chawla
May 2, 20214 min read
A Call to End the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis: Yemen
Sara Al-Zubi, Kei McHale, Leah Sarah Peer, Laasya Vallabhaneni, Brett Nelson We are students at Harvard Medical School and faculty at...
Harvard Student Human Rights Collaborative
Apr 21, 20214 min read
Call to Action: Vaccine Equity in Israel-Palestine
By Asmaa Rimawi, Anand Chukka, and Lianet Vazquez We are students at Harvard Medical School concerned about the state of health in the...
Asmaa Rimawi, Anand Chukka, Lianet Vazquez
Feb 26, 20213 min read
PHR: Violent Political Insurrectionists Must be Held Accountable
Below is an excerpt from a statement by Donna McKay, PHR's executive director, in response to the insurrection at the United States...
PHR Student Advisory Board
Jan 8, 20212 min read
Tigray Crisis: Millions in Ethiopia At Risk
As the news cycle in the United States is dominated by the aftermath of the presidential election and the coronavirus pandemic, a...
Columbia Human Rights Initiative
Dec 9, 20203 min read
What the U.S. Election Means for Rural America
Disclaimer: Physicians for Human Rights is a non-partisan organization that works at the intersection of medicine, science, and law to...
Veena
Nov 3, 20203 min read
Nightmare on Peach Street: The Horrendous State of Georgia's Detention Centers
Located less than 10 miles outside the heart of Atlanta lies Clarkston, Georgia, a city celebrated for its ethnic diversity. Clarkston...
Nicole Lue
Sep 16, 20206 min read
Mental Health Afflictions of Children in the Middle East
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and protests worldwide against racial injustice, one thing has not changed: the fact that armed conflict and...
Racheed Mani
Jul 30, 20205 min read
The United States' Youth Detention System Poses Serious Threats to Health Care
There are over 43,00 youth currently held in juvenile detention and correctional facilities across the United States. Long before the...
Chris Diaz
Jul 8, 20204 min read
Don't Separate Migrant Children from their Parents
As a medical trainee who works with children and families, I am encouraged by the order to release children who have been held for more...
Rebecca Leff
Jun 30, 20202 min read
The Imprisonment of Pregnant Women under COVID-19
Andrea Circle Bear, an inmate imprisoned on account of drug charges, passed away after giving birth on Tuesday, April 28th while on a...
Leah Sarah Peer
Jun 4, 20204 min read
COVID-19 in Gaza: The Need to Lift the Blockade
As the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic and cases and fatalities rise daily, these times call for essential geopolitical...
Racheed Mani
May 26, 20205 min read
'Maximum Pressure' Sanctions Threaten Patients' Right to Health
Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties used by countries to restrict trade or transactions with specific entities of...
Laila Fozouni, Parsa Erfani
May 6, 20204 min read
Immigrants Are at Particular Risk of COVID-19. Here's What Congress Can Do.
Physicians, residents, and medical students around the country are seeking signatures for Congress to take action for immigrants in light...
Tristan Mackey, Thomas Pak
Apr 30, 20204 min read
Assessing Medical Students’ Understanding and Knowledge of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
What Are Crisis Pregnancy Centers? Pregnancy Counseling Centers, also referred to as crisis pregnancy centers (CPC) or pregnancy resource...
Close the Camps in the Time of COVID-19
There are over 200 ICE detention facilities across the United States, where detainees often spend months to years awaiting their...
Michael Dorritie, Michelle Munyikwa, Shefali Sood
Mar 31, 20204 min read
Gun Violence Requires Medical Intervention
109. This is the number of people who died each day from firearms in the U.S. in 2017, the most recent year for which the CDC has...
Michael Dorritie
Feb 14, 20204 min read
Medical Students Strike for Climate
Millions of students around the world are striking for the defining issue of our generation. And as medical students we strike because...
Natasha Sood, MPH
Nov 13, 20195 min read
Medical Students Stand Against the Mandatory DNA Collection of Immigrants for Non-Violent Crimes
On October 21st, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a ruling to mandate DNA collection of immigrants who come between official...
Michael Dorritie, Thomas Pak, Pauline Huynh
Oct 27, 20195 min read
Detained Migrants Have a Right to Proper Medical Care
Advocating for the humane treatment of detained migrants As medical students who will all take an oath to uphold the highest standard of...
Thomas Pak, Neha Siddiqui, Courtney Harris
Aug 31, 20196 min read
The Opioid Epidemic: The Ongoing Crisis and Ways to Improve It
For the first time in over 50 years, U.S. life expectancy decreased for the second consecutive year in 2017. This decline is in part due...
Thomas Kuczmarski
Feb 22, 20194 min read
Healthcare in Incarcerated Populations – a Medical Student Perspective
For a well-functioning society, it is necessary to have a government, schools, hospitals, recreational centers and other amenities. The...
Shefali Sood
Jan 15, 20194 min read
Act now: the proposed public charge rule
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights begins from the premise that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and...
Michelle Munyikwa, Advocacy Committee
Nov 27, 20184 min read
Medicine is a Call to Political Action: Torture and Our Refugee Patients
As we progress in our clinical training, we accumulate stories. We carry the stories of patients who have changed us in unforgettable...
Eden Almasude
Feb 20, 20173 min read
Shelter for asylum seekers is denied federal funding | 4 ways you can take action
"Freedom House has been a key partner with the University of Michigan's Asylum Clinic since its inception in 2013. Our partnership has...
Anne Phan-Huy
Feb 20, 20173 min read
Gun Violence as a Human Rights Issue
We, the student branch of Physicians for Human rights, urge healthcare professionals to view gun violence not ONLY as a public health...
PHR Student Advisory Board
Nov 22, 20163 min read
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