About this Webinar

What is the potential paradigm shift of applying human rights standards to your public health practice?

Learning Objectives

After completing this webinar, you will be able to:

• • Define human rights
  • Apply questions to identify changes necessary for using human rights standards in your public health practice
  • Describe 2 websites for definitive resources for human rights standards

Subject Matter Expert

Loretta Ross, Associate Professor at Smith College

Loretta Ross is a Visiting Associate Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender for the 2019-2021 academic years.

She started her career in activism and social change in the 1970s, working at the National Football League Players’ Association, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Black Women’s Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (National Anti-Klan Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, until retiring as an organizer in 2012 to teach about activism. Her passion transforms anger into social justice to change the world.

A handout will be used during the webinar.