Developing a Human Rights Approach to Strengthen Practice

On Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in room 102 of the Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF), the USC Global Health Lecture Series will present "Developing a Human Rights Approach to Strengthen Practice: Implications for Medicine, Public Health & Social Work"

Jane McPherson, assistant professor at University of Georgia, will explain how human rights as dictated by the United Nations could impact social work both in the U.S. and around the world. In the U.S. her work focuses on asylum seekers and immigrants; globally, she creates tools to investigate and promote rights-based practice. An arts activist, McPherson engaged students and community members in One Million Bones, a national anti-genocide project, to lay 1,000,000 handmade bones on the National Mall in 2013. She is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience in the field.

After McPherson's presentation, refreshments and a Q&A session will follow.

RSVP at https://globalhealth.usc.edu/developing-rights-approach

This talk is part of the 2016-2017 USC Global Health Lecture Series and is co-hosted by the USC Institute for Global Health, USC Program on Global Health & Human Rights and USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work.