Forced from Home: One Year Later
By Sheila Burt In the fall of 2018, Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) held the interactive exhibition “Forced from Home” in the Daley Plaza to [...]
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“Forced from Home” seeks to personalize the lives of global refugees
By Sheila Burt In the Daley Plaza courtyard, a series of tents portray what life is like for the millions of people around the globe being forced to flee their homes due to [...]
From Lebanon, Lessons In Law And Life
This article was originally published HERE on April 27, 2017 on the Huffington Post. This article was written as a follow-up to a presentation given during the [...]
Public Health in Pictures – 2017
We recently hosted an event that featured powerful speakers and inspiring art as part of our annual Public health matters series. This year’s event focused on [...]
No Road Home: Three Doctors Reflect on Aleppo and the Future
The NPHR Blog is excited to feature this post, written by Sheila Burt, as an introduction to our upcoming Northwestern Public Health Review winter issue. Burt expertly weaves [...]
NPHR Public Health News May 1st 2016
Global News Ever wonder whose job it is to go around during war to pull people from the rubble and provide emergency care? meet the white helmet brigade in Syria. Does the [...]
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