People's Health Movement – North America
The 24th Annual Doctors for Global Health (DGH) General Assembly will be held August 2-4, 2019 in Tucson, AZ, with an optional border tour on August 1. This year’s theme is Healing Justice: Undoing Borders That Divide Us. Speakers, discussions, and sessions will focus on the experiences, health and human rights issues…
PHM-USA strongly condemns the US government’s massive support of the Israeli occupation forces in Palestine. Without such support, the lives of thousands of Palestinian children, women, and men could have been saved and the devastating amount of injuries, disabilities, and psychological trauma could have been prevented. We join with the…
PHM-USA joined over 600 groups signing on to a letter delivered to Congress urging them to: Halt all fossil fuel leasing, phase out all fossil fuel extraction, and end fossil fuel and other dirty energy subsidies. Transition power generation to 100% renewable energy. Expand public transportation and phase out fossil…
PHM-North America had an exciting conversation with Simone Granberg, Sebastian Gunnesson, and Mia Appelbäck, from Sweden, who are fighting back against their government’s decisions to cut health services in their communities. Mia is a physician and activist with PHM-Scandinavia. Simone and Sebastian have participated in years-long occupations of their local hospitals in the…
From November 16-19, health activists from across the globe gather in Savar, Bangladesh for the 4th People’s Health Assembly (PHA4). The Assembly is a unique space where civil society organizations and networks, social movements, academia and others strengthen solidarity, share experiences, learn from each other, and strategize together for future…
PHM has a new online tool available! An interactive guide to key practices for movement building collected from social movements across the globe engaged in the struggle for health. The struggle for health and social justice has a long and proud history that has been driven by diverse social movements…
Planning on going to the APHA Annual Meeting & Expo this year? Many PHM-NA activists and affiliated organizations will be at this year’s Meeting shining a bright light on issues of health and human rights. We will be discussing a wide range of topics from a right to health perspective,…
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad on October 5, 2018 “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.” From the Nobel Prize site: “The physician Denis Mukwege has spent large parts of his adult…
by Leigh K. Haynes and Julia Robinson for the Health and Human Rights Journal blog With the Alma-Ata Declaration, the world committed to achieving “health for all by the year 2000”, designating this “a most important world-wide social goal.” It identified primary health care as the principal strategy to reach this…
The 4th People’s Health Assembly (PHA4) will be in Savar, Bangladesh from November 15-19, 2018. People’s Health Movement-North America has funding to offer three travel subsidies of up to 1000 Euros each to those wanting to make the trip to Bangladesh for the Assembly. The funds will be used to…