Welcome to the University of New South Wales' Initiative for Health and Human Rights (IHHR), a multidisciplinary research, teaching, service and advocacy initiative founded collectively by the Faculties of Arts and Social Science, Law and Medicine.

Established in July 2005 by NewSouth Global, the IHHR aims to develop integrated strategies to examine the intersection between health and human rights from new viewpoints. The IHHR advances health and human rights as both an area of study and a new, composite method of research. This work serves as the foundation for an interdisciplinary and international research network. The results will be used to strengthen the capacity of governmental, non-governmental and academic institutions to apply health and human rights principles to policy, programmes and practice, build the evidence of the interactions between health and human rights, support teaching and orient further research.

The Initiative builds on contributions from faculty, students, domestic and international organisations, health practitioners, human rights practitioners, policy makers and civil society, in particular members of communities who are denied access to health and human rights.

The University of New South Wales' Initiative for Health and Human Rights and the Central Commision for Popularization and Education of the Communist Party of Vietnam are pleased to announce the International Conference "Realising the Rights to Health and Development for all", from 26-29 October 2009 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The 3rd UNSW flagship intensive Course on Health, Development and Human Rights is scheduled to be held from 7-11 December 2009 at the Campus of the University of New South Wales.

On the 10th December 2008, the Australian Human Rights Centre, the UNSW Initiative for Health and Human Rights and the Diplomacy Training Program celebrated the 60th Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Justice Elizabeth Evatt and UK jurist Lord Bingham spoke about the historic signing of the UN Declaration and successess and failures in policy since 1948.