Crisis in the Middle East - Humanitarian Health

Description

Johns Hopkins University hosts a live, virtual briefing on the humanitarian health crisis in the Middle East.

The following experts are scheduled to participate:

• 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

The free, online event is part of the Johns Hopkins Briefing series, which provides timely insights and analysis of urgent, in-the-news issues from world-renowned experts.

Member of the media can direct questions to jhunews@jhu.edu.