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Buildings in Gaza are surrounded by smoke during an aerial bombing.

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Experts estimate scenarios for excess deaths in Gaza

Published April 15, 2024

Johns Hopkins civil and systems engineering professor Tak Igusa explains how the research team modeled projections of future casualties from trauma, infectious diseases, and other factors in Gaza

A soldier sits atop a barricade, silhouetted and surrounded by coils of barbed wire

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The rules of war and human rights

Published Oct 27, 2023

Human rights expert Len Rubenstein explains how laws governing war apply to health and human rights in the evolving Israel-Gaza conflict

Two adults and a child walk through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City

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Humanitarian health in Gaza

Published Oct 20, 2023

Frayed health care and an overwhelmed global humanitarian system imperil the health of civilians in Gaza, cautions Hopkins expert Paul Spiegel

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, guardian of human rights

Published Fall 2019

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, a Hopkins alum and the former U.N. high commissioner for human rights, has spent decades speaking on behalf of victims of the world's most vile atrocities / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Farmworkers to table

Published Fall 2018

Greg Asbed and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers are changing the lives of Florida's tomato pickers. They're hoping to bring their Worker-Driven Social Responsibility model to other industries. / Johns Hopkins Magazine