Leitner Human Rights Speaker Series – Laura Mills, Human Rights Watch: Dual Crises: Human Rights of Chronic Pain Patients in the Midst of an Overdose Crisis – Leitner Center

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Leitner Human Rights Speaker Series – Laura Mills, Human Rights Watch: Dual Crises: Human Rights of Chronic Pain Patients in the Midst of an Overdose Crisis

September 10, 2019 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Location: Room 3-09, Fordham Law School, 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023
Contact: leitnercenter@law.fordham.edu

Laura Mills is a researcher with the Health and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, where her current project focuses on human rights violations of chronic pain patients amidst the opioid overdose crisis in the US. Before joining Human Rights Watch, she worked as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press. She was based in Russia and Ukraine and wrote about the conflict in eastern Ukraine, business and corruption, and social issues, including the rights of LGBT people, drug users, and orphans in Russia. Laura graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Slavic Studies and history in 2012. She speaks Russian, and is proficient in Spanish and Italian.