Dabney Evans is Executive Director of the Emory University Institute of Human Rights. She received her doctoral degree in 2011 in law from the University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom) and her Master of Public Health degree in 1998. Currently a Senior Associate Faculty in the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Evans teaches courses in "Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Human Rights" and "Health and Human Rights." In addition, Evans has served as a training instructor to more than 1,000 public health practitioners from over 20 countries. Evans was co-principal investigator for the “Tibet Trauma Study” which examined trauma, mental health and perceptions of human rights among adolescent Tibetan refugees. Evans was conference planning chair of the international conference, “Lessons Learned from Rights Based Approaches to Health” which brought together more than 350 participants from 40 countries in April 2005. Between 2002-2004, Evans was coordinator of an intensive public health study trip to Havana, Cuba for Master’s level students and now serves on the Medical Education in Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC), a non-governmental organization whose aim is to promote sharing of medical practice, education, policies and research that contribute to improving health care quality and accessibility in the USA, Cuba and throughout the world. Evans a member of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa National Service Honor Society and chair of the International Human Rights Committee of the American Public Health Association. Evans is a member of the 2012 Shadow Reporting coalition which will highlight the United States record on human rights and racial discrimination and obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination. She serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Trauma and Torture Survivors, the Refuge Media Project and the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship. Evans is faculty advisor to two student groups: Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) based in the Emory University Medical School and Human Rights Action (HuRA) based in the Rollins School of Public Health. In 2007 she was the recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award.Evans has recently published a curriculum based on the HBO documentary film Sergio, a biography of former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Viera de Mello. She is co-editor of "Rights Based Approaches to Public Health" the proceeds of a which go towards the APHA Paul Hunt Scholarship to support student attendance at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. She also plans to publish her recently completed dissertation research which focuses on the nondiscriminatory provision of the right to health in several countries. Evans is an avid capoeira practitioner with the group Passo A Frente and fluent in Portuguese.
Presentations relating to human rights: Evans, Dabney. "Human Rights in a Pluralistic Society" 2011 Veritas Forum, Emory University (Streaming video and audio presentation). Evans, Dabney. "Sergio: Teaching Social Justice and Human Rights" 2011 Hubert Department of Global Health Seminar Series (Streaming video and audio presentation). Publications relating to human rights: Evans, Dabney and Hougendobler, Dan. Sergio: A curriculum for teaching college and graduate students, HBO Documentary Films, 2010. Available in English, French and Portuguese. Rights-Based Approaches to Public Health, Beracochea, Elvira, Weinstein, Corey and Evans, Dabney (eds.). Springer Publishing Company, 2010. Evans, Dabney and Price, Megan "Measure for Measure: Utilizing Legal Norms and Health data in Measuring the Right to Health" In Methods of Human Rights Research, edited by Fons Coomans, Fred Grunfeld and Menno T. Kamminga. Intersentia, 2009. Pages 111-131. Evans, Dabney P."Physicians for Human Rights." In Encyclopedia of Human Rights, edited by David P. Forsythe. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Presss, 2009. Volume 4, pages 239-245. Evans, Dabney. 2009. “Human Rights Issues: The State, Non-State Institutions and the Individual. Evans, Dabney. 2007. “American SiCKO” University of Aberdeen Legal Research Society. Essay of IHR's Executive Director, Dabney Evans for National Public Radio's 'This I Believe' Evans, DP, Price, ME, Gulrajani, TL, and Hinman, AR. 2006. “Making the grade: A first attempt at a health and human rights report card” Health and Human Rights Vol. 9/2, pp 281-296. This article appears in Health and Human Rights, Vol. 9/2, 2006. It is reprinted with permission of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Health and Human Rights can be accessed at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/journal.htm. Evans,
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