The Human Crisis in Syria and Its Neighbors Featuring Live Keynote from Damascus with Yacoub El Hillo, UN Humanitarian Coordinat

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2014 – The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Smart Global Health Program will host a conference on the challenges of humanitarian assistance amid the burgeoning human crisis inside Syria as well as the mounting pressures upon policy makers to press for improved security and access. Full details appear below.

WHEN/WHERE
Thursday, June 12, 2014
9:15 AM to 2:00 PM
2nd Floor Conference Center
CSIS 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Credentialed members of the press who would like to attend must RSVP to cquinn@csis.org

9:15am Welcome and Video Introduction

Dr. J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director of the Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

9:25am Video Presentation

9:30am Live Link from Damascus

Mr. Yacoub El Hillo
Humanitarian Coordinator, United Nations

10:15am Roundtable: Humanitarian Operations

Ms. Nancy Lindborg
Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Mr. Rabih Torbay
Vice President for International Operations, International Medical Corps

Moderated by:

Mr. Todd Summers
Senior Adviser, CSIS

11:15am Roundtable: Destruction of the Health Sector, Decline of Public Health

Ms. Andrea Gittleman
Senior Legislative Counsel, PHR

Dr. Ron Waldman
Professor of Global Health, George Washington University

Dr. Muireann Brennan
Epidemiologist, CDC

Moderated by:

Mr. Len Rubenstein
Director, Program on Human Rights, Health and Conflict, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

12:15pm Break

12:30pm Luncheon: What is the U.S. to do?

Mr. Michael Gerson
Syndicated Op-Ed Columnist, Washington Post; Policy Fellow, ONE Campaign

Dr. Kathleen Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director of the International Security Program, CSIS

Dr. Zaher Sahloul
President, Syrian American Medical Society

Moderated by:

Dr. J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director of the Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

2:00pm Closing

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