Sexual and reproductive health rights are not normally thought of as materialising in the workplace, but there are a numerous hurdles at work to women\u2019s enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health. The final episode of Shaping the Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health at Work examines how workplaces, which have been created and designed for men, can be transformed using human rights to create working environments that are inclusive of diverse sex and gender needs.
While maternal mortality rates have been decreasing, they have not been decreasing for all types of women. Women in poverty, women with disabilities, young women, women in rural communities and women of colour, ethnic minority and Indigenous women are still at a high risk of maternal mortality and morbidity.\r\n\r\nThis episode of Shaping the Future of Safe Childbirth explores a range of maternal health issues\u2013 remoteness, data collection, obstetric violence and the impact of global technocratic policies\u2013in US, Kenya, Mexico, India and Brazil. It talks to on-the-ground doctors, lawyers and advocates to reflect on how human rights offer tools to ensure that maternal health policies begin with where women live their everyday lives.
Schools needs to be a place of safety for learners. Tragically, sexual and reproductive health rights can be violated at school. This episode of Shaping the Future of Reproductive Rights at School examines three issues of human rights: menstruation, sexual violence and discrimination against pregnant learners. It looks at how these issues arise and how a human rights framework can assist in tackling them.
Join Professor Chris Dye, author of The Great Health Dilemma, and Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), as they discuss ways to invest more money and effort in health promotion and prevention around the world today.
It is estimated that 25 million unsafe abortions happen every year. This episode of Shaping the Future of Abortion explores the role of human rights law in advocating for women\u2019s right to safe abortion. It examines successful legal strategies employed in South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Kenya and Poland, considers how human rights can be used to redress on-the-ground barriers to access to abortion and how they can be used to mobilize support for women\u2019s sexual and reproductive health rights.
The OxHRH new documentary series Shaping the Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights focuses on activist experiences in the field of sexual and reproductive health rights, their success stories, and advice for fellow activists across contexts. The series take a comparative perspective and closely examine how the strong moral and legal imperatives of human rights can be given detailed substance by grounding them in local context and making them effective in relation to individuals\u2019 lived experiences.\r\n\r\nThe first episode in Shaping The Future: Strategies for Change explores different tactics for using human rights law to achieve sexual and reproductive health. In talking to lawyers and activists from Kenya to Mexico, from The Philippines to Poland, the episode explores the role of data, strategic alliances, budgets, courts, Parliament, international human rights forum and community mobilisation in fulfilling sexual and reproductive health rights for all.
Global.health is the first of its kind, easy-to-use global repository and visualization platform that enables open access to real-time de-identified epidemiological line-list case data.\r\n\r\nThis platform was created by researchers from leading institutions around the world including Oxford, Harvard, Northeastern, Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, Georgetown, University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
The last two decades have seen an alarming rise in pathogens resistant to antibiotics (anti-microbial resistance or AMR), while there are fewer novel antibiotics in the research and development pipeline. During her time as the UK\u2019s Chief Medical Officer, and since leaving that position in 2019, Dame Sally Davies, the UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, has been tireless in pointing out the great dangers of AMR to health throughout the world and suggesting what needs to be done.\r\n\r\nIn conversation with Chris Dye, Sally Davies will explore this major 21st century challenge and discuss whether people\u2019s greater appreciation of medical risk due to the pandemic will help the development of effective countermeasures.
How does stigma impact the treatment pathway in Africa and across the world? Many people with mental and neurological disorders do not receive the diagnosis and treatment they require in order to improve their quality of life.\r\n\r\nFrom the University of Oxford and Newcastle University, Professors Arjune Sen, Sloan Mahone, Richard Walker and Mary Bitta discuss their experiences with stigma as clinicians and researchers.
In this conversation, Sir Andy Haines (Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Chris Dye (Professor of Epidemiology, University of Oxford) consider how better health and well-being are both an argument for, and a consequence of, making progress towards \u201cnet zero\u201d carbon emissions.
Oxford University research has contributed to strategies to eliminate malaria in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, helping to prevent the spread of drug-resistant malaria and improving health provision and outcomes for remote communities.
What started as a no-frills, \u2018IKEA-style\u2019 response to the UK\u2019s immediate need for mechanical ventilators has developed into an enterprise that aims to set the standard in supplying high-quality but affordable ventilators to low and middle-income countries around the world.\r\n\r\nThe company in question is OxVent, comprising researchers from Oxford University and King\u2019s College London (initially they worked alongside Hull-based medical manufacturing firm Smith and Nephew as part of the government\u2019s \u2018ventilator challenge\u2019). OxVent is now in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign to help realise its goals globally, and is forging links in Latin American, the Indian subcontinent and South-East Asia.
Join Prof Christophe Fraser of Oxford\u2019s Big Data Institute, who advises the UK\u2019s NHS COVID-19 Tracing app, and Prof Oliver Pybus, Lead Researcher of the Oxford Martin School Programme on Pandemic Genomics, as they discuss the opportunities and challenges of successfully applying new technologies to pandemics past, present, and future.
Researchers at Oxford Vaccine Group have developed machine learning software to predict the efficacy of flu vaccines, offering huge potential for other vaccine research.
In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used to help build support and understanding of every young person\u2019s right to education, health and well-being, in an inclusive and gender equal society.\r\n\r\nRight to a Better World is co-produced by the Oxford Human Rights Hub, World Health Organization, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Reproduction Programme. It explores how human rights are essential for meaningful fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used to help build a world in which women and girls are free from all forms of violence and discrimination.\r\n\r\nRight to a Better World is co-produced by the Oxford Human Rights Hub, World Health Organization, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Reproduction Programme. It explores how human rights are essential for meaningful fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used to help ensure every woman\u2019s and adolescent\u2019s right to not only survive pregnancy and childbirth, but have a positive experience of this profound life event.\r\n\r\nRight to a Better World is co-produced by the Oxford Human Rights Hub, World Health Organization, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Human Reproduction Programme. It explores how human rights are essential for meaningful fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
In this episode of Right to a Better World, experts share challenges they have faced, and tactics they have used to help ensure each woman\u2019s and adolescent\u2019s right to make decisions about their reproductive health and future.\r\n\r\nRight to a Better World is co-produced by the Oxford Human Rights Hub, World Health Organization, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Human Reproduction Programme. It explores how human rights are essential for meaningful fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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