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Africa

International Policy Fellowships
The International Policy Fellowships Program identifies and supports research by open society leaders in countries throughout the Soros foundations network. more

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Central & Eastern Europe

International Harm Reduction Development Program
The International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD), a part of OSI's Public Health Programs, focuses on diminishing the individual and social harms associated with drug use—particularly the risk of HIV infection—through innovative measures based on the philosophy of harm reduction. more

International Policy Fellowships
The International Policy Fellowships Program identifies and supports research by open society leaders in countries throughout the Soros foundations network. more

Mental Disability Advocacy Program
The Mental Disability Advocacy Program, part of OSI’s Public Health Programs, supports initiatives that seek to address the massive over institutionalization, the lack of community-based services, and the general exclusion from society of people with intellectual disabilities and/or mental health problems throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. more

Public Health Programs
Public Health Programs support initiatives throughout the Soros foundations network that encourage sustainable change in public health policy and practice. more

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Central Eurasia

International Harm Reduction Development Program
The International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD), a part of OSI's Public Health Programs, focuses on diminishing the individual and social harms associated with drug use—particularly the risk of HIV infection—through innovative measures based on the philosophy of harm reduction. more

International Policy Fellowships
The International Policy Fellowships Program identifies and supports research by open society leaders in countries throughout the Soros foundations network. more

Mental Disability Advocacy Program
The Mental Disability Advocacy Program, part of OSI’s Public Health Programs, supports initiatives that seek to address the massive over institutionalization, the lack of community-based services, and the general exclusion from society of people with intellectual disabilities and/or mental health problems throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. more

Public Health Programs
Public Health Programs support initiatives throughout the Soros foundations network that encourage sustainable change in public health policy and practice. more

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Russia, Ukraine & Belarus

International Harm Reduction Development Program
The International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD), a part of OSI's Public Health Programs, focuses on diminishing the individual and social harms associated with drug use—particularly the risk of HIV infection—through innovative measures based on the philosophy of harm reduction. more

International Policy Fellowships
The International Policy Fellowships Program identifies and supports research by open society leaders in countries throughout the Soros foundations network. more

Mental Disability Advocacy Program
The Mental Disability Advocacy Program, part of OSI’s Public Health Programs, supports initiatives that seek to address the massive over institutionalization, the lack of community-based services, and the general exclusion from society of people with intellectual disabilities and/or mental health problems throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. more

Public Health Programs
Public Health Programs support initiatives throughout the Soros foundations network that encourage sustainable change in public health policy and practice. more

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South Eastern Europe

International Harm Reduction Development Program
The International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD), a part of OSI's Public Health Programs, focuses on diminishing the individual and social harms associated with drug use—particularly the risk of HIV infection—through innovative measures based on the philosophy of harm reduction. more

International Policy Fellowships
The International Policy Fellowships Program identifies and supports research by open society leaders in countries throughout the Soros foundations network. more

Mental Disability Advocacy Program
The Mental Disability Advocacy Program, part of OSI’s Public Health Programs, supports initiatives that seek to address the massive over institutionalization, the lack of community-based services, and the general exclusion from society of people with intellectual disabilities and/or mental health problems throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. more

Public Health Programs
Public Health Programs support initiatives throughout the Soros foundations network that encourage sustainable change in public health policy and practice. more

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Southeast Asia

International Policy Fellowships
The International Policy Fellowships Program identifies and supports research by open society leaders in countries throughout the Soros foundations network. more

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Turkey & the Middle East

International Policy Fellowships
The International Policy Fellowships Program identifies and supports research by open society leaders in countries throughout the Soros foundations network. more

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United States

Community Fellowships
Community Fellowships are awarded to individuals who wish to employ their educational and professional attainments in service to disadvantaged communities in the New York City and Baltimore, Maryland areas. more

Medicine as a Profession
The Medicine as a Profession initiative (MAP) seeks to invigorate the principles of professionalism in medicine to advance trust, quality, and integrity in the United States. more

OSI-Baltimore
OSI-Baltimore seeks to foster debate, empower marginalized groups to help shape and monitor public policy, and strengthen communities and families in the Baltimore, Maryland area through the development of fair, rational, and responsive public systems. more

Program on Reproductive Health and Rights
The Program on Reproductive Health and Rights promotes reproductive freedom as a core element in advancing women’s civil liberties and human rights, and in securing larger social and economic opportunities for women and their families. more

Project on Death In America
The Project on Death in America (PDIA) seeks to transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement by fostering innovations in the provision of care, public education, professional education, and public policy. more

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publications

Healing the Crisis: A Prescription for Public Health Action in South Eastern Europe
Healing the Crisis, a publication from the Public Health Programs, analyzes the current state of public health in a region that has been buffeted in recent years by war, economic decline, and political paralysis. more

Harm Reduction News: Substitution Therapy
Summer 2003: Volume 4, Issue 2
The essays in this issue of Harm Reduction News focus on the status and availability of methadone maintenance treatment in several of the countries with the world's fastest-growing HIV infection rates—most of which also have rising rates of injecting drug use. more

Ideas for an Open Society: Pain Management
October 2002
In the October 2002 issue of Ideas For An Open Society, Kathleen M. Foley, M.D., director of OSI's Project on Death in America, argues that attitudes and behaviors towards pain and its mangement must change. more

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