Health and Humanitarian Response in Complex Emergencies
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/health
6-7 December 2014
Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB, UK
About the course:
Complex emergencies can result in movements of populations, widespread malnutrition, disease, mental illness, suffering and other outcomes that trigger humanitarian responses from a wide range of national and international actors. Many deleterious outcomes of complex emergencies could be prevented through effective programming directed toward physical and psychological health and well-being.
This two day short course will present critical examination of the normative frameworks for humanitarian responses in addressing the health and well-being of populations in complex emergencies. Alternative approaches to complex emergencies will also be presented and assessed.
The topics reviewed in this course will include:
. appropriate assessments of population health and well-being;
. community mobilisation;
. health services;
. food security and nutritional maintenance;
. health considerations for shelter and site planning;
. water and sanitation;
. the relationship between health and human rights.
Case studies and group discussions provide a forum for critical examination of the appropriateness of the reviewed standards and facilitate assessments of alternative ways for addressing: the health needs of populations; community participation; and appropriate programming in complex emergencies.
This course is suitable for: experienced practitioners; graduate researchers; parliamentarians and staff; government officials; and personnel of inter-governmental and nongovernmental organisations.
Convenor:
Dawn Chatty, Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration; Director, RSC
Professor Dawn Chatty is a social anthropologist whose ethnographic interests lie in the Middle East, particularly with nomadic pastoral tribes and refugee young people. Her research interests include a number of forced migration and development issues such as conservation-induced displacement, tribal resettlement, modern technology and social change, gender and development and the impact of prolonged conflict on refugee young people.
Instructors:
- Paul Kadetz, Assistant Professor; Convenor, BSc Global Public Health, Leiden University College, The Hague
Dr Paul Kadetz completed his DPhil in Development Studies at the University of Oxford with an examination of the local implementation of the World Health Organization policies for health care integration, focusing on the eradication of Traditional Birth Attendants in rural communities of the Philippines.
Paul has also trained in Medical Anthropology (MSc, Oxon) and International Health and Development (MPH, Tulane). As a clinician, Paul has worked as a nurse practitioner, critical care nurse, and acupuncturist/herbalist. Paul has served as a researcher, facilitator, and rapporteur for the Western Pacific Region Office of the World Health Organization.
Paul has also served as a researcher for projects with UNHCR, UNAIDS, and the Department of Primary Care Health Services at the University of Oxford. His research has concerned local health care systems and health reform; integrative medicine; health diplomacy; health care governance and equity; and disaster recovery. Paul is an Associate of the China Centre for Health and Humanity at University College London.
- Holly Scheib, Director of Global Consulting Services for Sage Consulting Incorporated
Dr Holly Scheib is a Fellow at the Center for Global Health Equity and Instructor in the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioural Sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
Holly is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College and serves as Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Consultant to International Medical Corps Mental Health and Psychosocial programmes in Amman, Jordan. Her work involves the study of community level interventions in the lives of displace migrant and disadvantaged groups, specialising in participatory methods action research, ethnography and monitoring evaluation.
Holly has designed academic programming and instructed graduate coursework in psychosocial health development, monitoring and evaluation, complex emergencies, social and behavioural theory, social theory, social change theories and international social work.
Apply:
Fee: £350. The fee includes tuition, lunch and all course materials. Participants will need to meet their own travel and accommodation costs and arrange any UK entry requirements.
Instructions for payment of course fee will be sent with your offer of place. Your place will be confirmed once payment has been received. Offers are made on a first-come-first-served basis to suitably qualified and experienced applicants.
Maximum thirty spaces
Click here to complete the online application form: http://mr31.qeh.ox.ac.uk/application-form-health-and-humanitarian-responses
Contact:
For all enquiries, please contact:
Heidi El-Megrisi
Refugee Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development
University of Oxford
3 Mansfield Road
Oxford OX1 3TB, UK
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Tel: +44 (0)1865 281728
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