Global Health Fellows Program: Visiting Speakers
Sponsored by Global Affairs & the Department of Philosophy
Thursday, October 4, 2018 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EDT
Van Metre Hall (formerly Founders Hall), #720
On Thursday October 4th, Dr. Elizabeth Campbell, Director of The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Representative Office in Washington, D.C, will visit students participating in the Global Health Fellows program.
Prior to joining UNRWA, Dr. Campbell was the senior humanitarian policy advisor in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs at the Department of State, where she worked on refugee and humanitarian issues in the United Nations system. Dr. Campbell has also served as a senior advocate for Refugees International, where she focused on the humanitarian crises in East Africa and the Middle East.
Dr. Campbell is the third speaker to visit the GHF this semester: previous talks have been given by Dr. Nancy Berlinger, a research scholar at The Hastings Center, an interdisciplinary, nonprofit, nonpartisan bioethics research institution; and Bryn S. Esplin, J.D., an Assistant Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M’s Health Science Center.
Dr. Berlinger's work focuses on ethical challenges in health care work including population aging; health care access and social integration for migrants; problems of safety and harm in health care systems; and treatment decision-making for seriously ill people. She co-founded and co-directs The Hastings Center’s Undocumented Patients project and is directing a new project on systems of safety for immigrant health. Her books include After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness (Johns Hopkins, 2005) and Are Workarounds Ethical? Managing Moral Problems in Health Care Systems (Oxford, 2016).
Professor Esplin is currently a Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center, where her research has focused on devising practicable systems of safety for undocumented patients, and applying a public health perspective to ensure immigrant and community health, particularly at the Texas border. She holds a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, a J.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and completed her clinical training as an Advanced Bioethics Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH.
Please note: there are limited places for the Oct. 4th talk by Dr. Campbell. If you are interested in attending, please contact the organizer Dr Lisa Eckenwiler: leckenwi@gmu.edu
