Human Rights and Social Justice.
Context Certificate
Learn to engage local, state, national, and global communities to address critical public health problems in a human rights framework and address public health challenges through larger issues such as racism, sexism, poverty, violence, and discrimination.
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What You Will Learn
Upon graduation, students will be able to:
- Apply principles of human rights and social justice to analyze public health problems, and to inform the design, implementation, and evaluation of national and international public health policies and programs.
- Analyze public health problems and solutions to foster social justice and human rights.
- Use the principles of human rights and social justice to address inequalities and disparities that continue to plague public health programs.
- Develop strategies for human rights and social justice advocacy in public health policy and program planning.
- Describe the roles of history, power, privilege, and structural inequality in producing health disparities.
Sample Course Titles
- Health and Human Rights
- Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights
- Ethical Issues in Medicine and Public Health
- Social Epidemiology
- Poverty, Health, and Development
- Social Justice and the Health of Populations: Racism and Other Systems of Oppression in America
- Immigrant and Refugee Health
- Strategies for Public Health Advocacy
Sample Practicum
- Juvenile Mental Health Advocacy Project at Health Law Advocates, Inc.
- Policy and Advocacy at the Massachusetts Public Health Association
- Patient Advocacy and Institutional Ethics Committee at Boston Medical Center
- Forensic Medical Evaluation Group for asylum-seekers and torture survivors at Boston Medical Center
- The WAGE Project, Boston
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