Panel Discussion: (The Impact of Humanitarian Crises on Global Health). Moderator: Paul Spiegel (Professor and Director, Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States). Panelists: Ann Burton (Chief, Public Health Section, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Switzerland); Jean Jacques Muyembe Tamfum (Director General, National Institute of Biomedical Research, Democratic Republic of the Congo). Panelists discuss disease outbreaks and the secondary and tertiary health effects of humanitarian emergencies on global public health systems and individual communities. Panelists explore the factors that have made – and could make – innovations to mitigate these successful and equitably available, emphasizing how R&amp;D is critical to minimizing the effects of these destabilizing events.

The Impact of Humanitarian Crises on Global Health

Panel Discussion: (The Impact of Humanitarian Crises on Global Health). Moderator: Paul Spiegel (Professor and Director, Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States). Panelists: Ann Burton (Chief, Public Health Section, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Switzerland); Jean Jacques Muyembe Tamfum (Director General, National Institute of Biomedical Research, Democratic Republic of the Congo).
Panelists discuss disease outbreaks and the secondary and tertiary health effects of humanitarian emergencies on global public health systems and individual communities. Panelists explore the factors that have made – and could make – innovations to mitigate these successful and equitably available, emphasizing how R&amp;D is critical to minimizing the effects of these destabilizing events.