Media Recordings: 2021-2023
Health Care on the Edge — Challenges of Refugee Medicine
In this Double Take video from the New England Journal of Medicine, Ximena Rojas García, Psyche Calderon Vargas, Hannah Janeway, and C. Nicholas Cuneo from the Refugee Health Alliance and the HEAL Refugee Health and Asylum Collaborative discuss the complex health care challenges, urgent needs, and substantial, multifaceted trauma that refugees experience in their journey to seek asylum in the United States. They summarize the range of services available to refugees at the U.S.–Mexico border and underscore the importance of taking a holistic approach when providing care to this patient population. The New England Journal of Medicine is the world’s leading general medical journal. Continuously published for over 200 years, NEJM publishes peer-reviewed research along with interactive clinical content for physicians, educators, and the global medical community at https://NEJM.org.
Source: NEJM Group
Why is there so little action as Gaza faces an unprecedented human catastrophe?
The United Nations says Gaza is facing a ‘public health disaster’ due to the collapse of its healthcare system. The UN and aid groups have warned of the spread of infectious diseases due to overcrowding in shelters and unsanitary living conditions. Dr Paul Spiegel, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, explains.
Source: TRT World Now
Johns Hopkins Briefing | Crisis in the Middle East: Humanitarian Health
Paul Spiegel is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and a Distinguished Professor of the Practice in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Spiegel previously served as deputy director and chief of public health at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Leonard Rubenstein is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology and interim director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. Rubenstein previously served as executive director and President of Physicians for Human Rights. - Moderator: Lainie Rutkow, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Source: Johns Hopkins University
Gaza: The Human Toll - Episode 1
Wars inevitably generate humanitarian crises. The humanitarian and health crises unfolding in Gaza, amidst war, are extraordinary: in the escalating scale of death, injury, and destruction; the gravity, danger, urgency, speed, and fluidity of events; the complex and contested historical context; and the dread of sudden further escalation. The crises have ignited a complex, historic debate over access, International Humanitarian Law, migration, data sources, and options such as humanitarian corridors, ceasefires, and pauses in fighting. The humanitarian and health agendas are tied inextricably to evolving deliberations over the course and conduct of the war, in the aftermath of the massacre by Hamas of 1,200 Israel citizens and soldiers on October 7, just as they are tied to continued urgent efforts to secure the release of an estimated 240 hostages still held by Hamas and expand the delivery of food, fuel, water, and medicines to 2.3 million Palestinian civilians under siege. Over all of this hangs the high uncertainty over Gaza’s post-conflict future.
The CSIS live studio conversations, ‘Gaza: The Human Toll’ are a product of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security, in active collaboration with the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda and other CSIS colleagues and programs. The show will convene regularly during this crisis period to capture clearly and accurately the evolving humanitarian and health situation inside Gaza, understand how the conduct of the conflict is shaping outcomes and future policy choices, contextualize the policy and operational choices on the table, think carefully about what may lie ahead, and hear from key operational international agencies and NGOs providing humanitarian assistance, as well as other experts with vital insights. Throughout these conversations will be the question of what is and should be U.S. policy. This event is made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Source: CSIS
Doctors report outbreaks of disease among Gaza's internally displaced peoples
Gaza's health ministry has warned of an increase of disease within healthcare facilities. Most of the patients, it says, are children. Paul Spiegel, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, speaks about the crisis.
Source: TRT World Now
THE COMMONHEALTH
Leonard Rubenstein; JHU: recent conversations in Kyiv
Len Rubenstein shares his trenchant, mixed reflections from a September visit to Ukraine, specifically the multiple burdens that the war imposes on Ukrainian society. Ukrainian morale and resolve remain strong, though gaps persist in medical rehabilitation services, including prostheses for soldiers who have lost limbs. 500 Ukrainian military medics and reportedly 20,000 Ukrainian civilians are currently held in Russian prisons, in violation of international law. Almost everyone points to the high level of mental health disorders. The war itself has changed: Russia has created the world’s largest mine fields.
Gender in Humanitarian Action
This event supports the launch of the Lancet Commission report on peaceful societies through health and gender equality. The Lancet Commission provides evidence that health and gender equality have a unique and powerful ability to contribute to more peaceful societies. The report urges the humanitarian community to take tangible action to promote gender equality and embrace the importance of gender equality, integrate gender equality into the principle of humanity, and adopt gender equal benchmarks within health sector responses.
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health
Inside the Humanitarian Response to the Destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka Dam
In early June, a major Ukranian hydroelectric dam was destroyed. The situation is incredibly complex with widespread fallout and the potential for long-term public health risks. WHO incident manager Dr. Heather Papowitz talks with Stephanie Desmon about why the situation is so precarious, what the major concerns are, and how humanitarian efforts are coordinated and prioritized.
Source: Public Health on Call
CHH Special Presentation: Palliative care for the seriously ill and dying in humanitarian contexts
CHH Special Presentation: Palliative care for the seriously ill and dying in humanitarian contexts
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health
Center for Humanitarian Health Special Event: Panel on the Earthquake in Türkiye and Syria
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health
The health impacts arising from the Ukrainian refugee crisis
The health impacts arising from the Ukrainian refugee crisis
SOURCE: Global News
Afghanistan in Freefall: Deadly U.S. Sanctions Blamed for Shocking Humanitarian Crisis
Afghanistan in Freefall: Deadly U.S. Sanctions Blamed for Shocking Humanitarian Crisis
SOURCE: Democracy Now!
A Conversation with Paul Spiegel on the Afghan Healthcare System
A Conversation with Paul Spiegel on the Afghan Healthcare System
SOURCE: Center for Strategic & International Studies
Event: Drivers of Violence Against Health Care- And What Can Be Done About Them
Event: Drivers of Violence Against Health Care- And What Can Be Done About Them
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health & Human Rights
Syria’s Conflict at 10 Years: Ongoing violations of International Humanitarian Law
Syria’s Conflict at 10 Years: Ongoing violations of International Humanitarian Law
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health
Goodermote Humanitarian Award 2021 - June 17, 2021
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
295 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees and People in Conflict Zones
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Reviving Refugee Resettlement: Moral, Policy and Implementation Issues
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health
Have COVID-19 and commitments to decolonize aid accelerated power shifts in the humanitarian sector?
SOURCE: Johns Hopkins CCP