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  • Connecting Human Rights and Public Health

    Epidemiologist Chris Beyrer explains how in the absence of human rights, public health suffers. Beyrer is working in Burma to conduct public health research and provide health services to internally displaced people.

    For more on this topic, see the eBriefing The Work Ahead of Us: Public Health and Human Rights.

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