Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) was founded in 1986 by Boston physician Jonathan E. Fine, who had traveled to Chile in 1981 to help secure the release of doctors there imprisoned by Pinochet. He traveled at the request of John Womack, Jr., a Marxist historian from Harvard. His delegation included James S. Koopman of the University of Michigan. Their trip was supported by five groups, including the American Public Health Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (need to identify the other three).
PHR cofounders included Dr. H. Jack Geiger, Dr. Jane Green Schaller, Dr. Robert Lawrence, and Dr. Carola Eisenberg. H. Jack Geiger was a long-time Marxist activist who started his career with A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin the 1940s and cofounded Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) in Boston in 1961. He was also president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
Schaller took up human rights activism in the 1980s while at Tufts University of School of Medicine in Boston. Lawrence was a Harvard graduate and later staff member. Eisenberg was originally from Argentina and participated in human rights missions to Chile, El Salvador, and Paraguay while on the staff of Harvard Medical School.
There seems to be a lot of overlap with the SANE-FREEZE network in Boston—same territory as the VMC and John Kerry in his early career.
I assume there’s some link to Quentin Young and the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), but don’t see anything specific offhand, other than the MCHR and Geiger both being involved in Freedom Summer in 1964. They’re certainly using the same organizational model.
Also, PHR gets funding from Soros.
“He was also president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.”
I meant to add, this was cofounded by American and Soviet doctors. See more at:
https://keywiki.org/International_Physicians_for_the_Prevention_of_Nuclear_War