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Upcoming events
- GHRT Research Seminar(Calendar event)(28 days)
- GHRT Research Seminar(Calendar event)(119 days)
- GHRT Research Seminar(Calendar event)(160 days)
Program in Health and Human Rights
This program provides opportunity for students, residents, fellows, faculty and staff to engage in activities related to the concept of health and human rights as well as broader aspect of human rights advocacy. Program strives to develop a model of incorporation of human rights training into medical education.
Components
- Introduction of stuents to the concept of, and the principle of health and human rights through educational seminars and presentations throughout the medical school curriculum
- Human rights advocacy in the U.S. as well as overseas, opportunity to lobby local politicians, health care organizations, non-governmental organizations, City and State Health Agencies, and grass-root organizations to help to recognize and appreciate the human rights problems and to collaborate and coordinate their collective efforts to fill in the gaps in services
- Training and research opportunities:
- Mount Sinai Human Rights Clinic: Training medical students and physician-in-training in evaluation, documentation and management torture survivors and asylum seekers, and preparation of medical affidavit as well as provision of care for torture survivors and asylum seekers
- Student Electives in Human Rights - 4-8 week Health and Human Rights electives based on experience in Survivors of Torture clinics, internship with NYC-based human rights organizations, assigned readings and discussion, and research project
- Human Rights Research Activities: opportunities for students, residents and faculty to collect and analyze relevant data and work toward new health and social policies; develop strategies and effective interventions at local and national level to bridge the barriers to survivors' effective mental and physical care, and subsequently documents and provide evidence to the success of these interventions
- Service provision: provision of medical evaluation and medical and psychological services for torture survivors at Mount Sinai Human Rights Clinic through development of a network of volunteers.
- Increasing awareness for general public, surrounding communities, academic institutions, and medical professionals
Mount Sinai students and physicians interested in the Human Rights Clinic should contact Ramin Asgary and Jenifar Chowdhury