Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spotlighted the long-standing issue of attacks on hospitals, medical personnel, and civilian populations during times of war. Such attacks threaten public health infrastructure, both immediately and for years thereafter.
During this hybrid event Bloomberg School of Public Health experts Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH ’91, and Len Rubenstein, JD, along with Sergii Dvoriak MD, PhD, DMedSci, head of the board, founder, and senior scientist of the Ukrainian Institute for Public Health Practice; Mulugeta Gebregziabher, PhD, professor of biostatistics and vice chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina; and Ghutai Sadeq Yaqubi, MD, MPH, acting technical director of USAID's Urban Health Initiative Project through Jhpiego in Afghanistan, will provide context for the violence against health care in ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Myanmar, Tigray, and elsewhere. They will also discuss the threats to the creation of a functioning health system in Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal.
This event is hosted by the Bloomberg School’s Center for Public Health and Human Rights and co-sponsored by the School’s Center for Humanitarian Health.
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