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On Wednesday, Feb. 8, Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital host a day-long international emergency medicine conference.
The conference begins at 7:30 a.m. at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, at 3959 Broadway.
Topics and Speakers include :
"Humanitarian Intervention in Unrecognized Conflicts"
Dr. Christopher Fournier , Program Director, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA
"Assault on Survival: The Darfur Way of Life Destroyed"
John Heffernan, Senior Communications Associate, Physicians for Human Rights
"Planning for the Immediate Relief in the Aftermath of the 2003 War with Iraq: Lesson Learned"
Dr. Frederick M. Burkle , Center for Refugee and Disaster Response; Departments of International Health and Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions
"Financing Essential Health Services in Low-Income Countries"
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and The UN Millennium Project |
