Pandemics and Peace
The spread of infectious disease threats—particularly those with pandemic potential, including Avian flu, H1N1 flu, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—has and continues to present a grave health, security and humanitarian threat regionally and globally with direct implications for peacekeeping efforts.
Upon the publication of "Pandemics and Peace: Public Health Cooperation in Zones of Conflict" (USIP Press, June 2011), panelists Dr. Jose Fernandez, Dr. Allyn Taylor, and author Dr. William J. Long discussed the relationship between pandemics and peace. Topics included the correlation between infectious disease control and the use of military forces, the successes and challenges of the implementation of the new International Health Regulations, the relationship between public health cooperation and transnational political cooperation, and the U.S. role in global health cooperation.
Speakers
- William J. Long
Professor and Chair
Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
Georgia Institute of Technology
USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, 2009-2010 - Jose Fernandez
Acting Deputy Director
Division of International Health Security
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
United States Department of Health and Human Services - Allyn L. Taylor
Visiting Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center - Leonard Rubenstein, Moderator
Chair, USIP Health and Peacebuilding Working Group
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Chantal De Jonge Oudraat, Introductions
Director
Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
United States Institute of Peace
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Location
United States Institute of Peace
2301 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20037
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