The Center sponsors seminars and conferences on the interrelationship between health and human rights. In 1999, the Center assisted in beginning the first student chapter in the United States of Physicians for Human Rights, and subsequently sponsored a national conference on health and human rights attended by more than 300 medical students and medical school faculty from all over the country.

This past year, through the NYU School of Medicine Master Scholars Program, a seminar was conducted on advocacy and medicine. The goal of this seminar was to explore the role of physicians as advocates for promoting health and social justice.