We are thrilled to announce that PHR’s National Conference will take place on Saturday, February 20th, at Boston University Medical School. This year’s conference, Health and Human Rights in 2010, will empower students and faculty to advance the medical profession to one which embraces human rights.
The conference is the first of its kind to solely focus on bringing students and faculty together to integrate health and human rights into the health education field. The day will bring together over a hundred of the country’s most committed student leaders and fifty pioneering educators and Deans as a springboard for initiatives to advance health and human rights education. Attendees will have the incomparable opportunity to be a part of a national movement to change the paradigm of the health professions to one that promotes health and human rights worldwide.
You have the opportunity to be one of a select group of students to represent your school and help lead the way towards a more comprehensive inclusion of human rights in medical education! Have a PHR student chapter in your school? Get the members together to discuss who will apply to represent your school. Don’t have a PHR chapter? You can still join us if you have a vision for health and human rights education in your school. Fill out an application to represent your school at the conference!
The jam-packed day will include:
- World-renowned, dynamic leaders to facilitate panel discussions about the best way integrate human rights curriculum in medical education.
- Ground-breaking discussions in panels, strategy sessions, skill development workshops, and planning sessions.
- The Education Innovations Expo, during which student presenters will share successful health and human rights educational programs and provide tips and ideas for other students striving to do the same. (Click here if you’d like to present an elective, reading or film group, or other educational programming to further human rights advocacy.)
- A town-hall style forum to discuss the need for a human rights approach in the health profession, with a focus on the fight against some of the globe’s greater health burdens.
- A unique opportunity to develop your networking and hands-on advocacy skills alongside some of the nation’s leaders in health and human rights.
Check out the conference website at PHRStudentConference.org for information about attending the conference and getting to and staying in Boston. And stay tuned to the student blog for the official conference agenda, presenter announcements, and other conference updates as the event approaches. Contact me with any questions in the meantime.
