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Uses a case-based approach to investigate interactions of epidemics, public health, and human rights. Explores how human rights violations and failed public policies can affect the health of populations and the efficacy of public health efforts. Examines epidemiologic methods to investigate and describe these interactions, including qualitative assessments and interview approaches, population-level measures, indirect measures for use in conflict areas, and other new tools. Includes case studies on criminalization and HIV; attacks on healthcare in conflict settings; violence against ethnic minority groups; forced labor and trafficking; policies to promote the right to health, and more.