David Mills is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and public health practitioner. He is co-director of the Palestine Program for Human Rights at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and an Assistant in Pediatrics in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. His research, educational, and academic interests focus on the intersections between health and human rights, utilizing critical frameworks to elucidate the social and structural determinants of health and health program implementation to improve access to health education, improve clinical care, and promote health equity.
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This policy brief argues that the health sciences—from public health to epidemiology, nursing, medicine, pharmacology, and nutrition, among others—have a distinct role to play in preventing and documenting the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and other settings, as well as in generating evidence to inform accountability processes.
