[13] In 1971, Hluzman wrote an in-absentia psychiatric report on General Petro Hryhorenko[14] who spoke against the human rights abuses in the Soviet Union.

[16] While in prison, Hluzman and fellow inmate Vladimir Bukovsky jointly wrote A Manual on Psychiatry for Dissidents published in Russian,[17] English,[18] French,[19] Italian,[20] German,[21] Danish.

[23] In 1991, Hluzman founded the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association (UPA) as an independent mouthpiece and created a commission to address grievances about civil rights violations by mental health administrators.

[25] In 2008, Semen Hluzman was honored with the Geneva Prize for Human Rights in Psychiatry presented to him at the XIV Congress of the World Psychiatric Association in Prague for exceptional courage and adherence to ideals of humanism, for renunciation of using psychiatry against political dissidents as well as for dissemination of ethical principles during the reform of mental health service in Ukraine.

[26] Hluzman coauthored many research papers covering psychiatry in Ukraine,[27] the health consequences of the Chornobyl accident,[28] their risk perceptions,[29] suicide ideation,[30] heavy alcohol use,[31] nicotine dependence,[32] intimate partner aggression.