Blog | PHR Students

Sep 11, 2021
2 min

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

Jun 5, 2021
2 min

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,...

Rishab Chawla

May 2, 2021
4 min

Oppose Global Vaccine Apartheid

The case for vaccinating the globe is evident — millions of lives are more important than pharmaceutical profits or intellectual property...

Harvard Student Human Rights Collaborative

Apr 21, 2021
4 min

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...

Asmaa Rimawi, Anand Chukka, Lianet Vazquez

Feb 26, 2021
3 min

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...

PHR Student Advisory Board

Jan 8, 2021
2 min

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...

Columbia Human Rights Initiative

Dec 9, 2020
3 min

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...

Veena

Nov 4, 2020
3 min

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...

Nicole Lue

Sep 17, 2020
6 min

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...

Racheed Mani

Jul 30, 2020
5 min

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...

Chris Diaz

Jul 8, 2020
4 min

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...

Rebecca Leff

Jul 1, 2020
2 min

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...

Leah Sarah Peer

Jun 5, 2020
4 min

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...

Racheed Mani

May 26, 2020
5 min

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...

Laila Fozouni, Parsa Erfani

May 6, 2020
4 min

'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...

Tristan Mackey, Thomas Pak

Apr 30, 2020
4 min

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...

Assessing Medical Students’ Understanding and Knowledge of Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Neha Siddiqui, Sarah Swiezy, Pavithra Wickramage, Carly Polcyn, Candise Johnson, Leah Genn, & Pooja Nair

Apr 13, 2020
4 min

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...

Michael Dorritie, Michelle Munyikwa, Shefali Sood

Mar 31, 2020
4 min

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

Feb 14, 2020
4 min

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...

Natasha Sood, MPH

Nov 13, 2019
5 min

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...

Michael Dorritie, Thomas Pak, Pauline Huynh

Oct 28, 2019
5 min

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...

Thomas Pak, Neha Siddiqui, Courtney Harris

Aug 31, 2019
6 min

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 Kuczmarski

Feb 22, 2019
4 min

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...

Shefali Sood

Jan 16, 2019
4 min

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...

Michelle Munyikwa, Advocacy Committee

Nov 28, 2018
4 min

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...

Eden Almasude

Feb 20, 2017
3 min

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...

Shelter for asylum seekers is denied federal funding | 4 ways you can take action

Anne Phan-Huy

Feb 20, 2017
3 min

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...

PHR Student Advisory Board

Nov 22, 2016
3 min

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...

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