Jacqueline Bhabha

Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population.
Director of Research, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School.
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.
Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center.
Steering Committee Member, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2020-2021).
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jacqueline_bhabha@harvard.edu
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Research interests: Discrimination, stigma, racism, migration, refugees, statelessness, children and adolescent rights and child protection, and reparations. 

Jacqueline is currently working on a variety of projects, including on the Lancet Commission on Reparations and a book on reparations, which links questions of reparation for Roma to the broader discussion of reparations for enslavement. She is also collecting data on access to maternity and child health for asylum seekers and refugees in Greece and Mexico, and the impact of COVID on access to secondary education for low caste Rajasthani girls. Her most recent book A Better Future: The Role of HIgher Education for Marginalized or Displaced People came out in 2020.

This information is accurate as of the affiliate year indicated. (last updated 12.28.2025)