Health in a world of crises and impunity
Launch of the report of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and the Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement
This event presents the findings and recommendations of "Health in a World of Crises and Impunity", the report of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and the Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement.
Professor Paul Spiegel, Commission Chair, will present key findings on health in humanitarian setting—conflict, displacement and climate-related crises—followed by a panel discussion with The Lancet editors, commissioners and Next Generation scholars, and an open Q&A.
This event will follow by a reception in the Pumphandle Social.
Speakers
Paul Spiegel
Professor Paul Spiegel, a Canadian physician and epidemiologist, is one of the few humanitarians in the world that both responds to and researches humanitarian emergencies and migration. He is the Director of the John Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and Distinguished Professor of the Practice in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Before Hopkins, Dr Spiegel was Deputy Director of Program Management & Support and Chief of Public Health at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He previously worked as a medical epidemiologist in the International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a medical coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde in refugee emergencies. Dr Spiegel has published over 230 publications on humanitarian health, migration and human rights.
Introduction speakers
- Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
- Ana Mateus, Executive Editor, The Lancet
Panel
- Sara Pantuliano, Chief Executive at ODI, Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s Seventh Advisory Group of the UN Peacebuilding Fund and Commissioner
- Munzer Alkhalil, Research Fellow at the LSE IDEAS Conflict and Civicness Research Group, and the Syria Public Health Network, and Next Generation Scholar
- Malavika Rao, Postdoctoral Researcher at C-EENRG, Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, and Next Generation Scholar
- Aula Abbara, Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London
Event notices
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