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Threatened Health Systems: Protecting, Recovering and Reconstructing Health Systems Disrupted by Armed Conflict and Other Civil Crises

RSVP Required Harvard Students

On Thursday, April 28th, the Belfer Center’s Security and Global Health Project will host Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux, Research Director for the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, as part of its spring seminar series.

The event will consist of a seminar involving Dr. Bourdeaux hosted by Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security and Faculty Director of the Security and Global Health Project.

Amid the War in Ukraine, the seminar will discuss why health systems are important to protect during periods of civil crisis—and why they are such a tempting target for parties to a conflict. Dr. Bourdeaux will then focus on core strategies for protecting, recovering and reconstructing health systems that arise from the three major global health paradigms: international humanitarian law, the global health development movement, and the newer global health security/biosecurity initiatives.

This event will take place in hybrid format. Harvard students may register to attend in-person using the RSVP link below. To join the livestream, please register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErduirrzkiG9VkGoSqRwmzJ3JoPsQE4sj5 

Date: Time: - Location: Ofer Building, Room 401
Margaret Bourdeaux

About

Currently the Research Director for the Security and Global Health Project at the Belfer Center, Dr. Bourdeaux, MD, MPH, conducts research and field work focused on health systems and institutions in conflict affected states, health security, and health crisis management. She has worked with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Policy to analyze the US Department of Defense’s global health projects and programs.  She led a joint Harvard-NATO team of analysts to evaluate the impacts, challenges and opportunities international security forces have in protecting and rebuilding health systems in conflict affected states.

Dr. Bourdeaux earned her BA at Harvard University, her MD at Yale Medical School, completed her combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and completed her MPH at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was one of the first graduates of the Global Women’s Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.