Investigations
Recent PHR Reports
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Achieving the MDGs by Investing in Human Resources for Health
The Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative has consolidated evidence on the connections between scaling up the health workforce and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and proposed specific commitments that leaders should incorporate into the MDG action agenda on the health workforce and on developing equitable, accountable health systems...
May 20, 2010 -
Toxic Metals and Indigenous Peoples Near the Marlin Mine in Western Guatemala
Environmental health scientists from the University of Michigan find that a sample of Guatemalans who live near a controversial gold and silver mine in the country’s western highlands have higher levels of potentially toxic heavy metals in their urine and blood than a sample of residents who live farther from the mine....
May 18, 2010 -
Hospital Staff Upholds International Medical Ethics During Unrest in Bangkok
Two PHR researchers report from Thailand that actions by anti-government protesters who first blockaded and later forcibly entered and searched a major hospital in central Bangkok last month were a gross violation of humanitarian principles....
May 3, 2010 -
Grading the Benchmarks
Now, almost six months after the policy review, an honest accounting of the "benchmarks" for progress in Sudan suggests how much important work remains to be done if broader conflict is to be avoided.
April 29, 2010 -
Action Agenda
This 9-page white paper, published March 17, 2010, on the eve of the US Special Envoy to Sudan’s first twelve months in office, urges the US Envoy to address the urgent need of women and girls in Darfur through diplomatic efforts and the resources appropriated to the office for urgent peace and security interventions.
March 19, 2010
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