Paul B. Spiegel

Paul B. Spiegel (born 1965 or 1966[1]) is a Canadian physician, epidemiologist, and academic who specializes in humanitarian health.

Not to be confused with Paul Spiegel.

He is the director for the center for humanitarian health at Johns Hopkins University.

Early life and education

Spiegel was born in Toronto, Canada.[1]

He has a bachelor's degree from Western University, a degree in medicine from the University of Toronto, and a masters in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[2]

Career

Spiegel's career took him to refugee camps in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo where he worked as a medical coordinator for both Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde.[1][3][4] He has worked at the Centers for Disease Control as an refugee health epidemiologist,[3] where he won the Charles C. Shepard award outstanding contribution to public health.[5] In 2002, he joined United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2002 where he served as the director for four sections: public health; cash programming, shelter and settlements; and operations, solutions and transitions.[6][7] Has has also worked as a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization and the Canadian Red Cross.[4]

He is currently the director for the center for humanitarian health and a professor of practice at Johns Hopkins University[8][9] and the co-chair of the UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health.[2]

Selected publications

He has published over one hundred academic articles on humanitarian health and migration, including:[4]

He has co-edited:

Personal life

Spiegel lives in Baltimore, Maryland.[15]

References
  1. Jeunes, Paupst (1 July 2000). "A Meditation on Evil". Maclean's.
  2. "Paul Spiegel | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health". publichealth.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  3. "Paul B. Spiegel | Center for Humanitarian Health". hopkinshumanitarianhealth.org. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  4. "Paul Spiegel". The Forum at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. 2013-10-01. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  5. "Charles C. Shepard 2020 Science Awards" (PDF). Centre for Disease Control. 2020. p. 57.
  6. "North American Refugee Health Conference". www.northamericanrefugeehealth.com. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  7. Gharib, Malaka (2020-03-31). "Refugee Camps Face COVID-19: 'If We Do Nothing, The Harm Is Going To Be So Extreme'". NPR. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  8. Bonifield, Elizabeth Cohen,John (2019-12-13). "After arrests of protesting doctors, border agency digs in on refusal to vaccinate migrants". CNN. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  9. Subbaraman, Nidhi (2020-04-24). "'Distancing is impossible': refugee camps race to avert coronavirus catastrophe". Nature. 581 (7806): 18–18. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-01219-6.
  10. Gharib, Malaka (2017-06-22). "Humanitarian Aid Is 'Broken,' Says Former U.N. Official". NPR. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  11. Bassiouni, M. C. (2011). Crimes Against Humanity: Historical Evolution and Contemporary Application. United States: Cambridge University Press. p234
  12. Bassiouni, M. C. (2013). Introduction to International Criminal Law. Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pCIII
  13. The Kosovo Report: Conflict, International Response, Lessons Learned. (2000). United Kingdom: OUP Oxford. p318
  14. Schreiber, Melody (2019-04-05). "Researchers Are Surprised By The Magnitude Of Venezuela's Health Crisis". NPR. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  15. "Twitter biography". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.