The Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights (PPHHR) at the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University is thrilled to announce its inaugural post- doctoral fellowship for 2023-2024.
Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights Overview
The Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights is an academic hub engaging in a broadly collaborative justice- and rights-based approach to foster Palestinian health through health research, education, and multidisciplinary community and academic engagement. Addressing the structural drivers of health inequities for Palestinians requires a multidisciplinary approach across a myriad of fields including health, human rights, international law, economics, politics, and history. The Palestine Program’s cross-disciplinary engagement seeks to produce scholarship and programming aimed at elucidating and addressing the structural determinants of health for Palestinians in the occupied territory, Israel, refugees, and the diaspora. Further information about the PPHHR can be found on the program’s website.
Health and Human Rights Fellowship
The PPHHR seeks a fellow whose work centers Palestinian health within a larger socio-political context. The fellowship will support a scholar working in the fields of medicine, public health, social sciences, and/or human rights law as it pertains to the health of Palestinians to produce innovative scholarship in their respective fields. The fellow will be responsible for contributing to the advancement of the Program’s mission of knowledge production, education, and community engagement in Palestinian health and human rights.
The Fellowship will be a one calendar year appointment with a flexible start date between March and September 2023. Fellows are required to spend the majority of the fellowship based in Boston at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights but may choose to begin the fellowship internationally and may travel as required for scholarly endeavors. We encourage Palestinians and citizens of all nationalities to apply. Full application details here.
