Join us for a lunch discussion with UChicago and Pozen Center alum Dr. Rohini Haar, a prominent health and human rights researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and Physicians for Human Rights.
Learn more about Haar from our recent Alumni Spotlight on how her time at the Pozen Center inspired her career.
Dr. Rohini Haar is based at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is an adjunct professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Joint Medical Program, as well as a lecturer at the Law School. She also serves as a medical advisor to Physicians for Human Rights and practices emergency medicine in Oakland, California.
Her research interests include using population methods to study the impact of human rights violations, such as torture, violations of free speech and assembly, and war crimes, on health.
Recent projects include understanding the health impacts of crowd control weapons (such as tear gas and rubber bullets) and serving as a chapter editor on the 2022 revision of the Istanbul Protocol, the Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, liasing with the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, and serving on the board of the Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Current research includes studying the impacts of war crimes and violence on healthcare, with studies in Colombia, Syria and Myanmar. She is particularly interested in the protection of health workers and health services in conflict and in developing strong research methodology in fragile contexts.
She received her AB (2001, Political Science) and her MD (2005) from the University of Chicago and her MPH (2013) from Columbia University. She completed her emergency medicine residency at NYU/Bellevue Hospitals (2009).