Center for Public Health and Human Rights

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Chris Beyrer, who was appointed the new Director of the Duke Global Health Institute - DGHI.

In 2004, Chris founded the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. We don't know where we would be today without his guidance, leadership, and passion for health and human rights.

Chris Beyrer Named Director of Duke Global Health Institute Christopher C. Beyrer, MD, MPH, an internationally recognized epidemiologist who has worked on the front lines of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 treatment and research, will be the next director of the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), university officials announced Friday. Beyrer will join Duke on August...

Centering the Voices of Formerly and Currently Incarcerated People & Leaders in the Movement speaker series is back!

Join us on April 5th at noon ET for Part 1: Education over Incarceration.

Register:
In person: https://bit.ly/3i7p1rp
Online: https://bit.ly/3tahRsX

From Prison Cells to PhD

Today, Myanmar is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a health care worker.

“We are determined to continue working until medical personnel can provide required medical care to wounded protesters, the sick, and the injured, freely in each and every corner of Myanmar.”

Myanmar Doctors for Human Rights Network (Partner Statement to UN Human Rights Council)

New report with Physicians for Human Rights, Insecurity Insight, and many more:

"Our Health Workers Are Working in Fear": After Myanmar's Military Coup, One Year of Targeted Violence against Health Care - Physicians for Human Rights Introduction On February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) took control of the country in a coup d’état.[1] Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in protest.[2] The military regime not only imprisoned political rivals and dissenters,[3] but quickly proceeded to wage war again...