Health and Human Rights Education
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– Patrick Sullivan, former chapter leader
Tufts University School of Medicine
The Health and Human Rights Education Program
Health professionals are obligated not only to protect and care for individual patients but also to promote the basic right to life and a healthy standard of living for all.
Columbia University
Read about the Columbia University Student Chapter and their Forum on Global Health and Human Rights.
Physicians for Human Rights believes that health and human rights curriculum prepares health professional students to better fulfill this obligation. This curriculum examines the root causes of ill health and provides a legal, philosophical and operational framework to build health systems and tackle disease. Incorporating a health and human rights framework in the academic setting promotes a rights-based culture in the health professions that can help students become both effective caregivers and advocates for advancing health.
The PHR Student Program's Health and Human Rights Education Program (HHRE) is committed to provide educational content, organizational resources, and support to student and faculty efforts to incorporate a health and human rights paradigm into their academic curriculum.
The Health and Human Rights Education Program focuses on curriculum change and elective creation. Learn about the variety of ways you and your chapter can integrate health and human rights in your curricula, from introducing a new elective to your class offerings to joining the discussion in your school's revision of its curriculum.
Resources to Get Your School Involved
- Successful Strategies for Implementing Health and Human Rights Education in Your School: A Guide for Student Chapters
- HHRE Toolkit, providing an array of practical tools for your HHRE imitative
- Health and Human Rights Syllabi, Class Modules and Coursework
- Academic Literature, supporting Integration of HHR in Curricula
- Methods for Curriculum Integration, an outline of venues for curriculum change
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