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Guided by the principles of scientific rigor, equity, justice, community engagement, and multidisciplinary and multi-institution collaboration, the Lerner Center’s mission is to improve population and community health through research, education, outreach and health promotion programming focused on the social, spatial and structural determinants of physical, mental and behavioral health and health disparities.
With faculty affiliates from public health, sociology, psychology, economics, medicine and public administration, the Lerner Center’s approach to research is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary.
Established in 2011 with an endowment from Sid and Helaine Lerner, the center fulfills its mission through the interrelated pillars of research, education, advocacy and action.
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Maintaining Refuge: Anthropological Perspectives in Uncertain Times
David Haines, Jayne Howell, Fethi Keles
American Anthropological Association, January 2017
This volume reflects the breadth of the anthropological vision of refuge, and the application of that breadth to understanding the many barriers that are created against refuge—whether for people meeting the formal legal standards of being refugees or for those many others for whom only durable refuge can bring a viable and meaningful human future.
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Maintaining Refuge: Anthropological Perspectives in Uncertain Times
David Haines, Jayne Howell, Fethi Keles
American Anthropological Association, January 2017
This volume reflects the breadth of the anthropological vision of refuge, and the application of that breadth to understanding the many barriers that are created against refuge—whether for people meeting the formal legal standards of being refugees or for those many others for whom only durable refuge can bring a viable and meaningful human future.
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