Media Recordings: 2024-2025

Humanitarian health systems provide relief like food, water, and medicine in crisis situations. They operate within a carefully organized framework built on core principles including impartiality and neutrality. In this episode: what's happening with humanitarian aid in Gaza and the importance of a new framework for global humanitarian efforts.

Source: Public Health on Call

Dr. Spiegel is interviewed on the current access to aid in Gaza.

Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Dr. Paul B. Spiegel, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, describes the humanitarian crisis and lack of basic goods in Gaza.

Source: TRT World Now

In this special live event, storytellers from Afghanistan, Myanmar, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria share firsthand accounts of living and working amid humanitarian crises, fleeing conflict, and shaping impactful roles in public health. 

Source: Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Global Health Now

Notions of a humanitarian-development divide, gap, or continuum go back decades and are outdated, as they have never fully depicted the overlapping reality and needs of most contexts across the world. Though numerous approaches have been developed to date, a broader understanding and operationalization within the humanitarian-development-peace nexus (HDPN) remains necessary, specifically in the health sector. On November 7, 2024, MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience hosted a webinar synthesizing key findings, commonalities, and differences in each context from case studies developed in Mali and South Sudan pertaining to the HDPN and applications to family planning, reproductive health and maternal, newborn, and child health interventions.

SOURCE: USAID MOMENTUM

Dean's Lecture with Shannon Doocy, PhD ’04 Professor, Department of International Health 
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

SOURCE: Global Nutrition Cluster

Special talk by Dr. Ira Helfand, a leading figure in the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Nobel Peace Prize winner, and past president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Dr. Helfand discusses the escalating threat of nuclear war, its catastrophic consequences, and what we, as citizens and health professionals, can do to prevent this global disaster.

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health

Dr. Hugo Slim from the University of Oxford presents a new framework for humanitarian aid in the face of the climate change emergency. He reflected on how current ethics and action in the sector are necessary, but not sufficient, for the climate change crisis. He offerred practical ethical pathways for aid workers and organizations to reimagine and redesign their purpose in responding to the increasing number of climate-related disasters around the world.

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health

Humanitarian groups have described the situation in Gaza as dire, with many Palestinians struggling to access food and basic necessities. The UN says it may not be able to deliver enough to Gaza. Doctor Paul B Spiegel, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, has more.

Source: TRT World Now

In this episode of "Cancer and Crisis Talks," Dr. Jemma Arakelyan had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Paul Spiegel, the Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Spiegel's extensive experience and remarkable contributions to the field of public health have positioned him as a leading expert in addressing the complex challenges facing the global community.

Source: OncoDaily TV

Dr. Paul Speigel and Dr Michael Desjardins, JHU, & Patricia Oke-Oghene Obroh, Action Against Hunger Case-area targeted interventions during a large-scale cholera epidemic: A prospective cohort study in Northeast Nigeria

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health

Dr Paul B Spiegel, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, discusses Israel’s war on Gaza and the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.

Source: TRT World Now

Professor Nancy Glass of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing studies violence against women and girls in humanitarian settings and conflicts around the world. She speaks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about key themes from this difficult work and how they apply to reports of the rape, mutilation, and murder of Israeli women and girls during the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. They also discuss what comes next for survivors. *Please note: This podcast was recorded several weeks ago. Earlier this week, the United Nations announced it was sending a team to Israel to investigate these reports. Also, please note that this is a difficult conversation that discusses sexual violence including rape.

Source: BSPH Public Health on Call

Dr. Paul Spiegel was deployed for one month in Amman and Cairo to support the UN Relief and Works Agency’s health response to the Gaza crisis. Join him as he discusses the challenges of strategizing, coordinating, and responding to this complex crisis.

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health

Dr Paul Spiegel, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health talks to TRT World about his experience in Gaza, amid a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.

Source: TRT World Now

Dr. Paul Spiegel talked about the humanitarian response to the Israel-Hamas war.