Sarbinaz Bekmuratova, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions was selected as a co-programming officer for the Human Rights Forum of the American Public Health Association. In this leadership position, Bekmuratova will be in charge of the scientific programming of the forum.
Human rights are a modern guide for public health, a vision that all public health scholars and practitioners shall uphold in their work. With human rights inextricably linked to the achievement of public health goals, a growing public health field has arisen in health and human rights, examining the human right to health and the interconnected rights to underlying determinants of health.
To learn more about the Human Rights Forum visit their website here.
