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Paul B. Spiegel

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

He is the Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University.[citation needed]

Early life and education

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Spiegel was born in Toronto, Canada.[1]

He has a bachelor's degree from Western University in 1987, a degree in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1991, and a masters in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1996.[2]

Career

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Spiegel's career took him to refugee camps in Kenya in 1992 and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire at the time) in 1995 where he worked as a medical coordinator for both Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde, respectively.[1][3][4] He has worked at the Centers for Disease Control in the international emergency and refugee health branch as an 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 where he started the HIV unit. He then became the Chief of the Public Health and HIV section in 2006. In 2011, he became the Deputy Director of the Department of Programme Support and Management where he oversaw four sections: public health; cash programming, shelter and settlements; and operations, solutions and transitions.[6][7] He has also worked as a consultant with the Pan American Health Organization and the Canadian Red Cross.[4]

He is currently the Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health and a Distinguished Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,[8][9] chair of The CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement, and co-chair of the UCLLancet Migration.[2]

Selected publications

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He has published over 150 academic articles on humanitarian health and migration, including:[4]

Personal life

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Spiegel is married and has one daughter. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.[16]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Jeunes, Paupst (1 July 2000). "A Meditation on Evil". Maclean's.
  2. ^ a b "Paul Spiegel | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health". publichealth.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  3. ^ a b "Paul B. Spiegel | Center for Humanitarian Health". hopkinshumanitarianhealth.org. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  4. ^ a b c "Paul Spiegel". The Forum at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. 2013-10-01. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  5. ^ a b "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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ Subbaraman, Nidhi (2020-04-24). "'Distancing is impossible': refugee camps race to avert coronavirus catastrophe". Nature. 581 (7806): 18. Bibcode:2020Natur.581...18S. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-01219-6. PMID 32332908.
  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. ^ Venezuela’s Humanitarian Emergency: Large-Scale UN Response Needed to Address Health and Food Crises
  15. ^ Schreiber, Melody (2019-04-05). "Researchers Are Surprised By The Magnitude Of Venezuela's Health Crisis". NPR. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  16. ^ "Twitter biography". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-04-09.