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Senior Moderator
HEALTH SECURITY, CONFLICT, AND EBOLA
OCTOBER 14 @ 9:30 AM - 11:00 PM
Johns Hopkins University ? SAIS
Rome Building
1619 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington D.C. 20036
RSVP to itlong@jhu.edu.
Watch this space for a live-stream at 9:30 AM on Tuesday the 14th.
MEETING OVERVIEW:
Conflict related death and injury are contributors to the global burden of disease. Information systems break down during conflict, contributing to uncertainty and fear. Fragile public health infrastructure may also be decimated. Containment and control of infectious diseases in areas of conflict is a priority, due to the severe havoc an outbreak can wreak on these vulnerable populations. In post-conflict West Africa, the lack of strong infrastructure helped give rise to the world?s first large scale Ebola epidemic.
What has become of routine immunizations, malaria control, reproductive health, and other essential services? When and how will they be rebuilt, and what would ?build back better? look like for them?
Conflict often displaces large populations into refugee shelters where overcrowding and lack of resources and unsanitary living conditions, increase exposure to disease. These populations may be considered vulnerable to infection because of high levels of malnutrition, low vaccine coverage, or long-term stress. Flight of trained staff and failure of existing disease control programs can turn a social threat into a disaster.
SPEAKERS:
Richard Garfield, DrPH MPH RN FAAN, is Emergency Response and Recovery Team Lead for Assessment, Surveillance, and Information Management for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention. He is the founding director of the Health & Nutrition Tracking Service at the World Health Organization (WHO); assisted in developing the Global Health Center at CDC; and coordinated the Collective Violence risk group of Global Burden of Disease estimates. He has taken part in large scale needs assessment surveys for the UN following disasters in Myanmar, Pakistan, Haiti, South Sudan, and in New Orleans. He is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Emory University. He is widely known for quantifying mortality changes related to conflict as well as the effects of economic sanctions on public health.
Chris Mahony is Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy, Brussels and a Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. He was Deputy Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights at Auckland University, Faculty of Law from 2012-13. He directed the Witness Evaluation Legacy Project at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and he authored the Recommendations on Governance for the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He has advised the U.S. Department of State, USAID, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the ICC, the Government of Nepal, Bain and Company, ICTJ and others on issues of security governance and transitional justice in conflict-affected and fragile states. He holds a DPhil in Politics and an MSc in African Studies from Oxford University. He holds Law and Business degrees from Otago University.
Deborah Rosenblum is Executive Vice President of NTI, where she oversees operations, development and programs. She joined NTI in 2009, as Senior Director for Strategic Planning and Operations. She spent seven years as Vice President of The Cohen Group, an international consulting firm. During 12 years she held senior level positions with the U.S. Department of Defense in the areas of homeland defense, peace keeping operations and support, nuclear forces and counter-proliferation policy. While at the Defense Department, she represented the U.S. in negotiations with the Democratic People?s Republic of Korea on multi-year bilateral nuclear program. Rosenblum holds a Master?s degree from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Middlebury College.
MODERATOR:
Mike Jobbins is the Senior Program Manager for Africa at Search for Common Ground. He supports the management, design, and development of programming in 22 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Mike previously worked for SFCG in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Burundi, where he supported the start-up and management of projects on elections, sexual and gender-based violence prevention, refugee reintegration, security sector reform, and postwar governance. He led field missions in humanitarian and emergency settings and established SFCG?s offices in North Katanga, North Kivu, and Equateur Provinces of the DRC. Previously, Mike worked on African affairs at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He holds a Masters in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University and a BA in Political Science from Harvard University.
Welcome and Opening Remarks by P. Terrence Hopmann, SAIS Conflict Management Program Director.
OCTOBER 14 @ 9:30 AM - 11:00 PM
Johns Hopkins University ? SAIS
Rome Building
1619 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington D.C. 20036
RSVP to itlong@jhu.edu.
Watch this space for a live-stream at 9:30 AM on Tuesday the 14th.
MEETING OVERVIEW:
Conflict related death and injury are contributors to the global burden of disease. Information systems break down during conflict, contributing to uncertainty and fear. Fragile public health infrastructure may also be decimated. Containment and control of infectious diseases in areas of conflict is a priority, due to the severe havoc an outbreak can wreak on these vulnerable populations. In post-conflict West Africa, the lack of strong infrastructure helped give rise to the world?s first large scale Ebola epidemic.
What has become of routine immunizations, malaria control, reproductive health, and other essential services? When and how will they be rebuilt, and what would ?build back better? look like for them?
Conflict often displaces large populations into refugee shelters where overcrowding and lack of resources and unsanitary living conditions, increase exposure to disease. These populations may be considered vulnerable to infection because of high levels of malnutrition, low vaccine coverage, or long-term stress. Flight of trained staff and failure of existing disease control programs can turn a social threat into a disaster.
SPEAKERS:
Richard Garfield, DrPH MPH RN FAAN, is Emergency Response and Recovery Team Lead for Assessment, Surveillance, and Information Management for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention. He is the founding director of the Health & Nutrition Tracking Service at the World Health Organization (WHO); assisted in developing the Global Health Center at CDC; and coordinated the Collective Violence risk group of Global Burden of Disease estimates. He has taken part in large scale needs assessment surveys for the UN following disasters in Myanmar, Pakistan, Haiti, South Sudan, and in New Orleans. He is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Emory University. He is widely known for quantifying mortality changes related to conflict as well as the effects of economic sanctions on public health.
Chris Mahony is Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy, Brussels and a Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. He was Deputy Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights at Auckland University, Faculty of Law from 2012-13. He directed the Witness Evaluation Legacy Project at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and he authored the Recommendations on Governance for the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He has advised the U.S. Department of State, USAID, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the ICC, the Government of Nepal, Bain and Company, ICTJ and others on issues of security governance and transitional justice in conflict-affected and fragile states. He holds a DPhil in Politics and an MSc in African Studies from Oxford University. He holds Law and Business degrees from Otago University.
Deborah Rosenblum is Executive Vice President of NTI, where she oversees operations, development and programs. She joined NTI in 2009, as Senior Director for Strategic Planning and Operations. She spent seven years as Vice President of The Cohen Group, an international consulting firm. During 12 years she held senior level positions with the U.S. Department of Defense in the areas of homeland defense, peace keeping operations and support, nuclear forces and counter-proliferation policy. While at the Defense Department, she represented the U.S. in negotiations with the Democratic People?s Republic of Korea on multi-year bilateral nuclear program. Rosenblum holds a Master?s degree from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Middlebury College.
MODERATOR:
Mike Jobbins is the Senior Program Manager for Africa at Search for Common Ground. He supports the management, design, and development of programming in 22 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Mike previously worked for SFCG in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Burundi, where he supported the start-up and management of projects on elections, sexual and gender-based violence prevention, refugee reintegration, security sector reform, and postwar governance. He led field missions in humanitarian and emergency settings and established SFCG?s offices in North Katanga, North Kivu, and Equateur Provinces of the DRC. Previously, Mike worked on African affairs at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He holds a Masters in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University and a BA in Political Science from Harvard University.
Welcome and Opening Remarks by P. Terrence Hopmann, SAIS Conflict Management Program Director.
