When the moon photobombs the sun 📸
Nice shot, Ben Fernando !

Cherry blossoms and destroyed Key bridge from Fort McHenry today.

Introducing the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health! #JHIPH is tackling the urgent challenge of linking human health with the health of our planet. Join us in this transdisciplinary venture as we aim for global leadership in #PlanetaryHealth . bit.ly/3J3UKri

Powerful words from a man who simply wants to feed people in humanitarian emergencies - whoever and wherever they may be. ⁦Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/03/opi…

The newly launched CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement, chaired by Paul B. Spiegel, was highlighted in the The New Humanitarian: tinyurl.com/44rbbwn7

You can read the Commission’s priorities in The Lancet: tinyurl.com/3vc5jmns

“The US plan to have a pier-that may take another 4-6 or even 8 weeks. It’s too long. To address the extreme situation right now, there needs to be a massive amount of trucks coming in & it can only be through land”-Paul B. Spiegel Nicole Narea Ellen Ioanes tinyurl.com/95kbra2

'The CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement is promising “systemic changes and bold recommendations”. It will include working groups with people affected by crisis.' By Irwin Loy
Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies
Paul B. Spiegel The Lancet thenewhumanitarian.org/newsletter/202…

Honored to chair this Lancet Commission. The humanitarian system is not able to adequately function in this age of conflict, climate change and geopolitical dysfunction. It needs to be reimagined.

We are launching the new CHH The Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement with a fantastic team of commissioners from various disciplines and geographies and chaired by Paul B. Spiegel .
Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies Université de Genève HUG Antoine FLAHAULT António Guterres John-Arne Røttingen

Conflict deaths hit 26-year high, with 110M+ forcibly displaced as of June 2023. JHU Humanitarian Health (CHH)–Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, & Forced Displacement aims to address this crisis, reshaping an overwhelmed humanitarian system. Read The Lancet: tinyurl.com/2j9brwns

'Actually, the numbers are likely conservative. The science is extremely clear. In December, the medical journal The Lancet, published two critiques of the death surveillance process done by extremely experienced scholars...' Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, LSHTM Paul B. Spiegel
time.com/6909636/gaza-d…

Honored to chair this Lancet Commission. The humanitarian system is not able to adequately function in this age of conflict, climate change and geopolitical dysfunction. It needs to be reimagined.

Please have a listen to this podcast where Prof Tak Igusa and I discuss the horrific toll of the war on Gazans w future projections of excess deaths. This work was done w London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine_Crises

“World-class epidemiologists tell us that with an escalation of the war into Rafah, as many as 85,000 Palestinians could die from injuries and disease over the next six months. 85,000 on top of the already mounting death toll.' London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Paul B. Spiegel
@CSPAN c-span.org/video/?c510967…

RT Paul B. Spiegel EQUAL_Research Ending Preventable Deaths: Prioritization of Maternal and Newborn Health in Conflict-Affected Contexts Webinar, March 19
ow.ly/hxPk50QPCiH IAWG Maternal & Newborn Health Sub-working Group FCDO Global Health Research USAID Global Health CDC Global Health Gender & Health Hub Adriana Quiñones

Pleasure to have participated today on the panel

He was referring to London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine JHU Humanitarian Health 's Gaza projections report - gaza-projections.org Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

📆 Announcement! March 19 8:30AM ET, join @EQUAL_research IAWG Maternal & Newborn Health Sub-working Group & FCDO Global Health Research for a #webinar on prioritization of #MNH in Conflict-Affected Contexts. Discover insights from #research in #Somalia #SouthSudan #Nigeria & #DRC . Register here! bit.ly/3UViYuD

Check out this important commentary out this week on the impact of CBRN threats on breastfeeding women, infants, and young children written by our colleagues Sharon Leslie and Mija Ververs.

Read the full paper today!
liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/hs…
Paul B. Spiegel

Researchers from JHU Humanitarian Health and Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, LSHTM tried something that's never been done before as a conflict rages. Instead of trying to calculate the toll of war in the moment, they looked forward.’ Paul B. Spiegel Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health