Africa Research Seminar

Date and Time

February 13, 2013
02:30PM - 04:00PM EST

"Humanitarian Early Warning: Progress and Complexity"

Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Committee on African Studies

Dr. Leaning's research and policy interests include issues of public health, medical ethics, and early warning in response to war and disaster, human rights and international humanitarian law in crisis settings, and problems of human security in the context of forced migration and conflict. She has field experience in problems of public health assessment and human rights in a range of crisis situations (including Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Kosovo, the Middle East, former Soviet Union, Somalia, the Chad-Darfur border, and the African Great Lakes area) and has written widely on these issues.

Speaker:

Jennifer Leaning, Faculty Associate. François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health.

Chair:

Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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