Humanitarian System is Not Just Broke, But Broken: Recommendations for Future Humanitarian Action

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. 09/27/2017 This one-hour, 20-minute presentation discusses the unprecedented number of humanitarian emergencies of large magnitude and duration, which are causing the largest number of people in a generation to be forcibly displaced. Yet the existing humanitarian system was created for a different time and is no longer fit for purpose. On the basis of lessons learned from recent crises, particularly the Syrian conflict and the Ebola epidemic, the speaker recommends actions that would make the humanitarian system relevant for future public health responses. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - October 4, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news