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SUMMARY:How Abortion Criminalization Affects Maternal Health in Cases of Severe Fetal Anomaly: Insights from El Salvador
DESCRIPTION:What are the maternal health consequences of criminalizing abortion in pregnancies with severe fetal anomaly? To answer this question\, Professor Viterna and her colleagues reviewed the charts of all 239 pregnancies diagnosed with fatal fetal anomalies at the National Women’s Hospital in El Salvador between January 1\, 2013\, and December 31\, 2018. In El Salvador\, all abortion is criminalized\, regardless of fetal viability. Anti-abortion advocates justify this ban by arguing that non-viable fetuses deserve a “natural” death\, but this study shows how notions of “natural” become nonsensical in health care settings\, where medical interventions are frequently required to manage pregnancy and initiate birth. The findings further demonstrate that requiring women to carry nonviable pregnancies to “term” generates serious and avoidable maternal health complications\, which must be managed through physically invasive medical procedures\, including cesarean deliveries\, decompression amniocenteses\, fetal head decompressions\, and\, in one case\, a full hysterectomy. \nIn this talk\, Professor Viterna will present findings from the study and discuss the maternal health consequences of abortion criminalization in cases of severe fetal anomaly\, including implications for reproductive health policy in the United States. \nThis webinar is free and open to the public and will include time for audience Q&A. \nRegister \n  \nSpeaker\n \nJocelyn Viterna\, PhD\nProfessor of Sociology\, Harvard University \nJocelyn Viterna is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research examines how social mobilization affects gender norms and practices in states\, in warfare\, in institutions\, and in communities. Viterna’s current project investigates how anti-abortion-rights activism in El Salvador transformed the Salvadoran judicial system\, and more specifically\, its processes for litigating gender. Viterna has also collaborated with Salvadoran doctors to investigate the maternal health outcomes of strict anti-abortion legislation. She is currently working on a book that elaborates how these lessons from El Salvador foreshadow institutional changes to US legal and health care systems under Dobbs. To date\, Viterna’s articles have been published in the American Journal of Sociology\, the American Sociological Review\, Politics and Gender\, and the Latin American Research Review. Her award-winning book\, Women in War: The Micro-processes of Mobilization in El Salvador was published in 2013 by the Oxford University Press. \n  \nModerator\n  \n \nJacqueline Bhabha\, JD\, MSc\nProfessor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith\, Jr. Lecturer in Law\, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School \nJacqueline Bhabha is a Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health\, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School\, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the Director of Research at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. She received a first class honors degree and an M.Sc. from Oxford University\, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London. \nFrom 1997 to 2001\, Bhabha directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997\, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She has published extensively on issues of transnational child migration\, refugee protection\, children’s rights and citizenship. She is the author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age (2014) and Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? (2018). She has edited or co-edited many books\, including Children Without A State (2011)\, Human Rights and Adolescence (2014)\, Research Handbook on Child Migration (2018)\, A Better Future: The Role of Education for Displaced and Marginalized People (2020)\, and Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective (2021). Bhabha was the founding chair of the Scholars at Risk Network\, and she serves on the board of the World Peace Foundation\, the Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion\, Fortify Rights\, the Journal of Refugee Studies and the Journal on Migration and Human Security.
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/research-and-innovation-jocelyn-viterna/
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SUMMARY:2027 Global Health Summer Internship Program Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) offers returning Harvard undergraduates the opportunity to participate in paid summer research and internship placements that connect classroom learning with real-world global health challenges. Opportunities range from laboratory and research group placements to fieldwork with hospitals and community health clinics\, as well as office-based internships with NGOs and international organizations. \nJoin us for an information session to explore available opportunities through the 2027 Global Health Summer Internship Program\, learn about the application timeline and what to expect\, and get tips on strengthening your candidacy. There will also be time to ask questions to the HGHI Student Engagement Team. \nThis session is open to current Harvard first-year\, sophomore\, and junior undergraduates interested in global health research\, practice\, and policy. \nLight refreshments & food will be served. 
URL:https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/event/2027-global-health-summer-internship-program-info-session/
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