During the first 100 days of the current US administration, anyone entering the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, was greeted by a wall-sized ...

In December, 2025, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health announced that Mary T Bassett would be stepping down as Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights.

Human Rights Watch would like to express our appreciation to the Special Rapporteur (SR) on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health for ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Tara Campbell unlocked the front door of the Bricklayers Hall, a no-frills brick building on South Union Street in downtown Montgomery, half a mile from the white-domed Alabama ...

The U.S. stands at a dangerous crossroads in mental health policy. On one hand, research shows that voluntary, community-rooted care helps people with psychiatric disabilities lead healthier, fuller ...

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The Unruh Civil Rights Act provides the fundamental protection for equal access to health care regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, experts say. The state has not acted to uphold those ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has initiated a compliance review of a hospital to assess its adherence to Federal conscience ...

Lobbyists and Republicans defeated a basic reform desperately needed in a dangerous industry, but the response can't be ...