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The Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University & The Mérieux Foundation USA are pleased to invite you to a symposium.

Join to explore health challenges and programs for displaced people in the context of global migration and its trends, providing a view from the ground and discussing successful models to address their needs in situations of conflict and crisis.

Keynote Presentation:

  • Prof. Karl Blanchet, Director of the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, and professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva; Co-Chair of the Lancet Migration European Region hub; Co-Chair of the CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement

Featured Speakers:

  • Dr. Jon Andrus, Adjunct Professor, Milken Institute School of Public Health, former Deputy Director of PAHO
  • Dr. Ramin Asgary, Professor of Global Health and Director of Humanitarian Health MPH, Milken Institute School of Public Health
  • Nidhi Bouri, MPH, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Global Health, USAID
  • Dr. Kevin De Cock, former Director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) Center for Global Health and CDC program in Kenya
  • Dr. Lynn Goldman, Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health
  • Yoran Grant-Greene, PhD MPH, Director, Caribbean and Central America Regional Office (CCAMRO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
  • Dr. David Heymann, Chairman of Mérieux Foundation USA and professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • J. Stephen Morrison, PhD, Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
  • Josette Najjar-Pellet, MPH, PhD, Middle East Regional Manager & Lebanon Representative, Mérieux Foundation
  • Dr. Jean-William Pape, Co-founder and Director of GHESKIO, Haiti; Howard and Carol Holtzmann Professor of Clinical Medicine, Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York

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