GHE Conference 2012 Media Partner: Emergency Physicians International 

The GHE Conference thanks EPi for its archival and publishing support for the 2012 course.

OVERVIEW

Conference Overview

The Global Emergency Medicine Program at the Weill Cornell Medical College Division of Emergency Medicine / NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, is pleased to announce the second annual Global Health Emergencies Conference: a two-week, state-of-the art course aimed at healthcare providers engaged in international work, scheduled from March 5th to 16th, 2012.

Global public health crises transcend borders and socioeconomic lines, requiring healthcare providers to initiate dynamic and multifaceted responses, in resource-poor and wealthy settings alike. This two-week CME conference aimed at residents, attending physicians and other healthcare providers will focus on providing participants with the tools and knowledge necessary to effectively engage in high-impact interventions in a variety of global health emergencies. The course will immerse students in the most critical global health issues of today: the Global Fund Diseases - Malaria, TB, HIV; trauma; chronic diseases; pandemics; and complex humanitarian emergencies.

Over thirty world experts in public health, policy and research will introduce participants to research methodology, program planning, and clinical skills for low-income setting. Overarching themes of human rights, sustainability, and ethics will help frame discussions on the roles of international institutions, financing, policy and advocacy initiatives.

This conference will feature a series of didactic lectures and interactive workshops, seminars, field trips, documentaries, and evening keynote addresses, guided by global experts in public health and policy. The limited class size will enable active dialogue on topics ranging from disaster preparedness and humanitarian response to capacity building, infrastructure development, and community empowerment. The 2012 conference will include two hours of hands-on, participatory, skills based workshops and group exercises every afternoon.

74 AMA PRA Category I CME credits.

2012 SCHEDULE
 

FACULTY

Course Director
Satchit Balsari, MD, MPH ~ Director, Global Emergency Medicine Program 
Dr. Balsari directs the Global Emergency Medicine Program at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical College Emergency Department. His interests are focused on the development of pre-hospital care, emergency medicine and community-focused disaster mitigation methods in low-income settings. Dr. Balsari's current projects include EMcounter, an online tool aimed at capturing the epidemiology of medical emergencies in rural and urban India, and crisis-mapping initiatives including projects HaitiVOICES and MumbaiVOICES. Dr. Balsari serves on the Steering Committee of the Global Health Curriculum at Weill Cornell Medical College, and is associate faculty at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is guest editor for SouthAsiaDisasters.net, and a reviewer for the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Balsari has been engaged in research, training and clinical service in several cities in India, in Sri Lanka, Qatar, Dubai, Montenegro, Mississippi (Katrina) and Haiti. 

Course Coordinator: Amita Kulkarni 
Amita is the Global Health Fellow at Weill Cornell Medical College, whose role is to lead the medical school's elective Global Health Curriculum, a longitudinal program featuring didactic coursework, experiential learning, and a mentored pathway for students engaging with resource-poor communities, internationally and domestically. Now in her second year of the fellowship, she is engaged in two clinical research studies through Johns Hopkins University that explore aspects of the Jhpiego Guyana Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Project, a program jointly run with the Guyanese Ministry of Health that offers women free visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) testing, an alternative cervical cancer screening method. Amita has previously worked in India and Nicaragua. She graduated from Dartmouth College in June 2010 and plans to attend medical school in the future.

Inaugural Keynote 2012:

Arash Alaei, MD

Dr. Arash Alaei is also a doctor expert in HIV/AIDS and International Health. He is former Director of International Education and Research Cooperation of Iranian National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. He and his brother were co-founders of the first "Triangular Clinic" for three target groups of Drug users, HIV patients, and STD cases in Iran documented by the WHO/EMRO as a "Best practice model" in the region. Dr. Alaei co-authored Iran's National Strategic Plan for the Control of HIV/AIDS 2002-2007. He also was instrumental in developing a major health proposal that was awarded $16 million by the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS. Dr. Alaei and his brother extended their work on HIV/AIDS in other countries, such as Afghanistan and Tajikistan, by implementing regional training workshops. He received his MD from the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and served an AIDS Fellowship supported by the Ford Foundation. Both received distinguished award from the New York Academy of Science in 2009 , the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights by the Global Health Council in June 2011 and the first award for leadership in health and Human Rights by PAHO/WHO in December 2011.  

Kamiar Alaei, MD, MPH

Dr. Kamiar Alaei is a doctor expert in HIV/AIDS and International Health. He and his brother were co-founders of the first "Triangular Clinic" for three target groups of Drug users, HIV patients, and STD cases in Iran documented by the WHO/EMRO as a "Best practice model" in the region. Dr. Alaei co-authored Iran's National Strategic Plan for the Control of HIV/AIDS 2002-2007. He also was instrumental in developing a major health proposal that was awarded $16 million by the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS. Dr. Alaei and his brother extended their work on HIV/AIDS in other countries, such as Afghanistan and Tajikistan, by implementing regional training workshops. Dr. Alaei was selected by the Asia Society in 2008 as one of its 21st Century young leader fellows in Asia. Both received distinguished award from the New York Academy of Science in 2009, the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights by the Global Health Council in June 2011 and the first award for leadership in health and Human Rights by PAHO/WHO in Dec. 2011. Dr. Alaei received his MD and MPH in Iran, and his master’s in international health from Harvard University.

2012 Course Faculty

Jennifer Chan, MD, MPH
Dr. Chan is an associated faculty member of Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and core member of the Crisis Dynamics Program at HHI. Her recent activities have focused on crisis mapping and GIS activities at the field level. She also helps evaluate open source technology organizations such as Ushahidi, trains emerging practitioners in humanitarian technologies and researches the interface between humanitarian agencies and volunteer & technical communities. She has helped NGOs integrate mapping into program decision-making in Mozambique and El Salvador She is also the lead instructor of humanitarian technologies education at the Humanitarian Studies Course. Her prior consultancy and research projects provided public health technical support to organizations such as Oxfam America, the American Red Cross, the United Nation Office of Coordination Affairs, and the International Rescue Committee. She recently served as deputy of operations for the HHI Love a Child Disaster Recovery Center field hospital in Haiti. She has completed professional degrees at Columbia University in the City of New York, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Tulane School of Public Health and Harvard University/Medical School.  She is also an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in Chicago.

Sasha Chanoff

Mr. Chanoff is the co-founder and executive director of RefugePoint and has worked for over a decade in refugee rescue, relief and resettlement operations in Africa and the US. Before launching RefugePoint he consulted with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kenya and worked with the International Organization for Migration throughout Africa, identifying refugees in danger, undertaking rescue missions and working on refugee protection issues with the US, Canadian, Australian and other governments. Sasha has worked extensively with many refugee populations, including Sudanese Lost Boys, Somali Bantus, Congolese Tutsis-at-risk, Liberians and Sierra Leonians among others. He has appeared on 60 Minutes as well as in other national and international TV, radio and print media outlets, has lectured, presented and given keynote speeches at universities and international refugee conferences and has published extensively on refugee issues. Sasha holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.A. in Humanitarian Assistance from the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Friedman School of Nutrition, Science and Policy. 

Hilarie Cranmer, MD, MPH

Dr. Cranmer oversees the curriculum development and implementation of HHI's Humanitarian Studies in the Field program. She is a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and faculty in the Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Cranmer served as a health officer in Banda Aceh, Indonesia with the International Rescue Committee during the acute phase of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and also assisted the American Red Cross in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the immediate aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Dr. Cranmer has also served as a medical officer at Embangweni Hospital in Malawi and as a field officer with Physicians for Human Rights in post-war Kosovo, conducting human rights research and teaching ultrasonography and trauma management. Initially trained in biomedical engineering, she is a graduate of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, completed an emergency medicine residency at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and was the first fellow in the International Emergency Medicine and Health program at Brigham & Women's Hospital, a fellowship program that she now leads as Associate Director.

Kirk Deitsch, PhD
Dr. Deitsch is Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. His primary research interests are centered on the molecular and biochemical aspects of malaria parasites including such cellular processes as antigenic variation, transcriptional gene regulation, DNA replication and nuclear organization. He spent five years as a research fellow in the Malaria Genetics Section of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institutes of Health prior to his arrival at Weill Medical College in 2001. 

Chris Desmond, PhD
Chris Desmond is a research associate at the FXB Center. He is an economist specializing in HIV and AIDS with a particular focus on responses to children in the context of the epidemic. Chris coordinates the Costs of Inaction Project which seeks to examine the costs of our failure to respond to children. Previously he was a research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa and a research fellow at the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Chris holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Ross Donaldson, MD, MPH 
Dr. Donaldson is the Director of the Global Health Program and Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is the Global Head for Emergency & Disaster Care in the International Medical Corps.He is the critically-acclaimed author of The Lassa Ward: One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases, about caring for refugees during an outbreak of an Ebola-like illness in Sierra Leone. Dr. Donaldson specializes in the provision of medical care in crisis areas and has worked in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. His extensive travels have taken him via tugboats and tuk-tuks—through distant revolutions, landmined fields, and warring countries. He has been a humanitarian in some of the world’s most dangerous places, a NASA expedition doctor to one of the planet’s highest lakes, and the caregiver to some of humanity’s poorest people. His current humanitarian efforts are focused in Iraq, where he is helping to build an emergency medical system for the country’s traumatized civilians. He is a founding member of the Iraq Emergency Medicine Working Group and principal author of Iraq’s 5-year strategic plan for emergency care.

Jamie Eliades, MD, MPH

Dr. Eliades is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. He is also an Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine at St Lukes Roosevelt Hospital. He has worked for the Center for International Emergency Disaster and Refugee Studies (CIEDRS) at Johns Hopkins where he focused on refugee camps, conflict, and post-conflict situations with a focus on health systems development in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Kakuma refugee camp, West Bank, and China. In 2004 he went to the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) fellowship and then worked on the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) on operational research. Dr. Eliades completed his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1999, and he did an international emergency medicine fellowship and MPH at the Johns Hopkins. 

Oliver Fein, MD

Dr. Fein is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Public Health and Associate Dean at the Weill Cornell Medical College. He is a practicing general internist with experience in health policy and a commitment to access to care for vulnerable populations, health system reform and global health education. As Associate Dean, he is responsible for Weill Cornell’s domestic affiliations and the Office of Global Health Education. He is Past President of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), Chair of the New York Metro Chapter of PNHP, past Vice President for the United States of the American Public Health Association (APHA), was recently elected to the Board of the American Public Health Association, and is responsible for the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium at the NewYork-Weill Cornell Medical Center of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Fein's work has focused on health system delivery reform on both the national and local levels. On the national level, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow from 1993 to 1994, when he worked as a legislative assistant in the office of Senate Democratic Majority Leader, George Mitchell. In this capacity, he was involved with developing policy on healthcare benefits, graduate medical education, healthcare quality, public health, medical malpractice, antitrust and remedies and enforcements. On the local level, Dr. Fein has been concerned with access to healthcare for vulnerable populations and the role of the Academic Health Center. In this regard, he spent 17 years at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center developing ambulatory care practices at the Medical Center and in community.

Lynn Freedman, JD, MPH
Lynn P. Freedman is the director of the Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program and of the Law and Policy Project, both in the Mailman School's Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health. Before joining the faculty at Columbia University in 1990, she worked as a practicing attorney in New York City. Professor Freedman has been a leading figure in the field of health and human rights, working extensively with women's groups and human rights NGOs internationally. She is currently serving as a senior adviser to the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health and is the lead author of the Task Force's Final Report "Who's Got the Power: Transforming Health Systems for Women and Children." She earned her law degree from Harvard in 1981 and her MPH from Columbia in 1990.

Arlan Fuller JD, MA
Arlan Fuller is Policy Director at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, and he has experience in international policy, federal government operations, and legislative strategy. He was the Legislative Assistant for international relations and trade policy to Congressman Sherrod Brown, where he was responsible for the Congressmans policy campaign to increase USAID funding for anti-tuberculosis efforts. Mr. Fuller also worked for Senator Edward Kennedy, serving on the Senators Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee staff, and focused on National Institutes of Health grants. Mr. Fuller received his BA in economics from the College of the Holy Cross. He holds a masters degree in peace and conflict studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and a JD from Boston College Law School.

Gregory Greenough, MD, MPH
Dr. Greenough is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Research at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He has worked extensively in applying epidemiologic methods to public health problems within conflict- and disaster-affected populations, and he has been involved in relief operations throughout the world. He has researched disaster preparedness in Tanzania; protracted refugee health in Kenya, Tanzania, and Colombia; the effects of landmines on human security in Angola; and has directed two national nutrition and food security studies and an emergency medicine development project in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He graduated from Case Western School of Medicine in 1989 and obtained an MPH at Johns Hopkins University in 1998.

Karen Heissler, PhD

Kirsten Johnson, MD, MPH
Dr. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, an Affiliate Faculty member at the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, and an Affiliate at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University. She is also Program Director of the McGill Humanitarian Studies Initiative (HSI) and Director of the Department of Family Medicine’s International Division. Dr. Johnson has extensive experience in humanitarian relief and development. She has both worked and conducted research in over 30 countries with 16 organizations. As an investigator for Physicians for Human Rights, she traveled to Chad and Sudan to interview Darfur’s three main ethnic groups. She co-authored a report on the destruction of livelihoods by the Government of Sudan as a means to commit genocide and presented this work to both the United Nations Special Representative for the Secretary General on Genocide Prevention and the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Dr. Johnson’s current research has focused on mental health of populations affected by conflict, Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and child combatants. Dr. Johnson conducted the first country wide study to examine the health and mental health of the Liberian post-conflict population in 2008. The results of this study were used to create the new Mental Health Policy and to inform government and non-government programs. In 2010 she led another investigation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to determine the prevalence of sexual violence in the Eastern provinces most affected by conflict and to examine issues concerning the recruitment of children into armed groups. 

Stephanie Kayden, MD, MPH
Dr. Kayden, MD, MPH, is the Director of the International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston and an Instructor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. As faculty of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the Humanitarian Studies Course, she trains professionals in global health and humanitarian work. Dr. Kayden helped develop emergency medical care in Bhutan, Fiji, Nepal, Japan, Germany, Serbia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, and Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She provided disaster relief to survivors of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan, helped rebuild health systems for Burundian refugees in Tanzania, and led a team to improve rural public health in Uganda, and published research on the effects of conflict on health in Liberia. She has taught health and human rights issues in more than a dozen countries. She completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Yale, then a fellowship in International Emergency Medicine at Harvard. She has a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. 

Dhruv Kazi, MD
Dr. Kazi grew up in Bombay, India, where he completed his initial medical training. After his residency in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, he earned a masters degree in international health policy and health economics from the London School of Economics, where he developed a keen interest in the interface of clinical and economic outcomes in healthcare. He completed his cardiology training at the University of California, San Diego and is currently an American Heart Association fellow in cardiovascular outcomes research at Stanford Universitys Center for Health Research and Policy. He is keenly interested in the clinical and economic impact of cardiovascular disease and in the role of cost-effectiveness research in shaping global healthcare priorities.

Sandeep Kishore, PhD
Dr. Kishore is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Global Health at Harvard University. He is also enrolled in the Weill Cornell Medical College/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Institute Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program. His scientific research concerns characterizing gene activation in the malaria parasite, and his previous research forms the basis of a current US patent application towards a novel method to treat bacterial sepsis. He has been the leader in a global student-led campaign against neglected tropical diseases that has integrated global health and neglected tropical disease issues into current medical school curricula. In 2010, he was nominated as a civil society delegate to the United Nations, and he currently serves on the Board of the global NGO Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM). He is the first The Lancet Prize winner for community service and is a 2008 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans recipient.

Adam Levine, MD, MPH
Dr. Levine is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Brown University Alpert Medical School and Affiliate Faculty for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He received his Medical Doctorate from the University of California, San Francisco and his Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley before completing his specialty training in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston. Dr. Levine has worked clinically and conducted research in Mexico, India, Zambia, South Africa, Bangladesh, Rwanda, and Haiti. He currently serves as the Clinical Advisor for Emergency and Trauma Care for Partners In Health - Rwanda, a Boston based non-profit organization working to improve healthcare for the poor in nearly a dozen countries around the world. Adam also serves as the Editor-in-chief for Academic Emergency Medicine Journal's annual International Emergency Medicine Literature Review. His research interests include improving the delivery of acute care in resource poor settings and during humanitarian emergencies.

Gerald Martone
Mr. Martone is the Director of Humanitarian Affairs at the International Rescue Committee's Headquarters in New York where he is involved in advocacy initiatives that influence policy and public support for people affected by political oppression, disasters, and violent conflict. Gerald is currently serving a two-year elected term as the Vice Chair of the UN Security Council Working Group which actively advocates with Security Council Permanent Representatives, Political Officers, Special Representatives, Special Envoys, and other senior level delegates to promote the cause of refugees and people uprooted by political conflict. For the previous 10 years at IRC, Gerald was the Director of Emergency Response. He has overseen emergency assessments and operations in Burundi, Liberia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Congo, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, East Timor, Northern Uganda, Bosnia, Angola, Ethiopia, Darfur-Sudan, Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Tsunami-affected areas of Indonesia. Gerald served two elected terms as the Co-Chair of the Disaster Response Committee of InterAction and also served on the Sphere Project Management Committee. Gerald is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School for International and Public Affairs. He has published numerous articles and book chapters covering a variety of topics on international aid and is an active spokesperson for human rights and humanitarian assistance.

Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH
Dr. McQueen is an anesthesiologist and public health consultant in Phoenix, Arizona.  Dr. McQueen practices anesthesia within Valley Anesthesiology Consultants, a diverse private practice group, and serves as the Director of Graduate Medical Education for the practice.  Dr. McQueen is an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor in Anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic, and a Fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.  She has special interests in the humanitarian provision of surgical care, and she currently leads the international Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group.  She was recently accepted for a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship to examine the impact of surgery on the burden of disease in an underserved area.

Brett Nelson, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Dr. Nelson is Attending Physician and Global Health Faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. As a fellow at Mass Generals Division of Global Health and Human rights from 2008-09, he led efforts in developing pediatric and newborn care and training in Monrovia, Liberia. Dr. Nelson's training includes MD and MPH degrees from Johns Hopkins, with MPH concentrations in humanitarian assistance and human rights, and advanced diploma training in tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Nelson has been involved in pediatric care, academic research and consultancy in a dozen conflict-affected areas while working for a variety of international organizations.

Ziad Obermeyer, MD, MPhil
Dr. Obermeyer is a resident physician in emergency medicine at the Brigham & Womens Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is affiliated with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. His research uses data from household surveys to estimate child and adult mortality in dev eloping countries, and it explores the relationship between mortality and political events. He also works on international health program evaluation and surveillance systems for clinical outcomes. He holds an M.Phil. from Cambridge in the history and philosophy of science, and he worked as a consultant to pharmaceutical and global health clients at McKinsey & Co. before obtaining his MD from Harvard.

Jonathan Olinger

Jonathan is the Founder and CEO of DTJ. After witnessing children face injustice during an around the world journey in 2004, Jonathan Olinger founded DTJ — the global voice of children — believing historically that injustice does not cease until stories are told. Having since traveled to over 50 nations including Burma, DR Congo, Iraq and Haiti to listen to children tell their stories, Jonathan has a global perspective of the greatest crisis the world has yet to see — millions of the world's children living in crisis. DTJ works to expose extreme forms of injustice those children face and link intervention partners until change is realized. Jonathan is a child advocate, social entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker and strives to invite others to create solutions that protect children globally. Most recently, Jonathan produced the documentary "Rescued" with CNN and is currently co-directing DTJ's forthcoming documentary release “Not Even Bullets” on child soldiers in the Congo.

Parveen Parmar, MD, MPH
Dr. Parmar is Associate Director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Harvard University. Her research focuses on use of epidemiologic methods to study health and human rights in conflict and disaster settings. Her recent work includes studies on health and human rights in Bangladesh and Chin State, Burma, a study of sexual violence among refugees in Cameroon, and work with the Bhutanese Ministry of Health and expansion of a drought early warning system in Ethiopia. Dr. Parmar is a graduate of Stanford University, received her medical degree from Northwestern University, and completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of California, Los Angeles / Olive View UCLA Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Parmar is also a graduate of the Brigham and Womens Hospital International Emergency Medicine Fellowship and holds a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Kevin P.Q. Phelan

Mr. Phelan manages Medical Humanitarian Communications for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the United States. Since joining MSF in 2002, he has coordinated international media and advocacy efforts in the field in Angola, the Palestinian Territories, Iraq, the Darfur region of Sudan, South Sudan, Niger, Haiti, Nigeria and Uganda. He served as head of mission and field coordinator in South Sudan in 2006, 2008, and 2010, managing malnutrition programs and a pediatric and obstetric hospital in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state. From 2008-2010, he worked on developing and implementing MSF’s international malnutrition advocacy as part of MSF’s Access to Campaign. In 2011, he helped develop and lead MSF’s Starved for Attention campaign.

Adam Ross
Adam Ross is an Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at the World Bank's Human Development Network.

Dirk Salomons, PhD

Dr. Salomons is Director of the Program for Humanitarian Affairs at the School of International Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, where he also heads the International Organizations specialization. Salomons specializes on the interaction between policy and management in humanitarian operations, and he has focused on the transition from relief to recovery in countries coming out of periods of conflict. Salomons is a fellow at NYUs Center on International Cooperation, where he works on post-conflict stabilization issues. Salomons has served on a wide range of management, peace building, and policy advisory functions in several major international organizations, and he was Executive Director of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Mozambique (1992-93). Dr. Salomons received a "kandidaats" degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1964, and subsequently obtained his "doctoraal", also at the University of Amsterdam, in 1967.

Sarita Shah, MD, MPH

Dr. Sarita Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Albert Einstein College on Medicine, with joint appointments in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.  She also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health.  Dr. Shah is a general internist with an interest in tuberculosis and HIV infection, including diagnosis of TB and MDR TB in HIV-infected adults and children in resource-limited settings.  After completing a General Internal Medicine research fellowship in 2004, which included a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, Dr. Shah joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was recruited to the International Research and Programs Branch of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination. Dr. Shah was the lead author on the ground-breaking March 2006 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) that described TB cases worldwide with second-line drug resistance and introduced the term "Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB)."  Dr. Shah's primary focus is understanding the epidemiology of TB/HIV and drug-resistant TB in high HIV prevalence settings, with the goal of improving diagnosis and reducing transmission. In 2010, she was awarded a 5-year NIH/NIAID R01 award to study XDR TB transmission in South Africa.

Simon Tsiouris, MD, MPH

APPLICATION

Application Requirements

ENROLLMENT FOR GHEC 2012 NOW OPEN

The Global Health Emergencies Course is aimed at promoting a highly engaged participatory discussion on the most pressing challenges in global health today. The course content, teaching methodology, physical lay-out and the day schedule all lend themselves to an interactive, probative climate. Class size is therefore limited. You are encouraged to apply early.

Resident physicians, early career healthcare professionals (MDs, RNs, NPs, PAs), public health practitioners policy makers engaged in international work are encouraged to apply. The 2011 course participants included residents, attendings, department chairs, nurses, NPs, and PAs.

Applicants are requested to submit a 200 word essay on their global health interests and experience.

Course Fees: USD 1800 include fees for all course materials, breakfast, lunch and dinners at the evening receptions and keynote addresses.
Please email your CV, contact information, and essay to:
GHEcourse@gmail.com

74 AMA PRA Category I CME credits.

  CONTACT

GHEcourse@gmail.com

VENUE

Weill Cornell Medical College, Manhattan, NY


EVENING VENUE
Evening venues are at different locations across Manhattan. RSVPs are requested to help plan dinner arrangements.

GHE Conference 2012 Media Partner: Emergency Physicians International 

The GHE Conference thanks EPi for its archival and publishing support for the 2012 course.