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Applications due by May 10 for joint two-year postdoctoral fellowship with the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford
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Geopolitics, Human Security and Health Equity in an Era of Polycrises
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Happening NOW - today and tomorrow. You can tune in right now via online participation: The Political Determinants of Health - 10 Years On:
How do the political determinants of health shape health outcomes in the Covid recovery era?
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Gaza Health: 50,000 pregnant women in displacement centers face malnutrition and health complications due to lack of basic necessities.
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oPt: Position Paper: The Consequences of Settler Violence and Forced Displacement on the Health and Wellbeing of Palestinian Communities in Area C (March 2024)[EN/AR/HE]
oPt: Position Paper: The Consequences of Settler Violence and Forced Displacement on the Health and Wellbeing of Palestinian Communities in Area C (March 2024)[EN/AR/HE]
Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Source: Physicians for Human Rights Israel
Please refer to the attached files.
Since October, Israel has escalated its land expropriation efforts in Area C of the occupied West Bank, along with the expulsion of dozens of Palestinian shepherding communities. Consequently, these communities have been severed from their traditional ways of life and means of livelihood, depriving them of crucial water sources and grazing lands essential for their livestock. Between 2021 and 2023, six communities were expelled, and following the escalation of settler violence since October, a further sixteen communities have been displaced.
For over five years, we’ve been flooded with reports chronicling settler violence. However, this worn-out term obscures a grim reality: life beside settler outposts and farms entail daily exposure to oppressive and coercive mechanisms, systemic discrimination, and a continuous sense of insecurity and fear. Our latest position paper explores how constant exposure to such routine violence is detrimental to the health of Palestinians, highlighting the social and psychological repercussions.
Violence as a social determinant of health: These West Bank communities have been subjected to combined settler-military violence, which has included the blocking of roads; stone attacks targeting vehicles, residences, and shepherds; raids on homes, villages, and agricultural lands; setting fire to fields and olive groves; tree uprooting; and even assaults involving Molotov cocktails and live ammunition. This routine violence instills a perpetual state of fear and insecurity, which, beyond the immediate physical harm, leaves lasting psychological and emotional scars. These wounds extend beyond individual physical and emotional suffering, impacting the collective by eroding social cohesion, disrupting community structures, and diminishing the sense of belonging crucial for maintaining personal and communal resilience.
The continuous violence and inadequate response to it have resulted in the permanent displacement of these communities, accompanied by the loss of grazing lands and water sources. Consequently, residents have been left without a means of income or anyone to take responsibility for their economic security. This has also led to the disruption of traditional ways of life and cultural practices deeply linked to these communities’ connection to the land.
Amid their forced displacement, the communal cohesion that endured through decades of Israeli occupation is now unraveling. Community members are being severed from their social networks, which previously provided them with a sense of belonging and security.
Now, while human rights organizations rightly direct their efforts and assistance towards the crisis in the Gaza Strip, the assaults on these West Bank communities are expanding. Given this reality, we must take immediate action to support the Palestinian communities in Area C. The forced displacements must cease, their homes restored, and they must regain their right to live with dignity and security. This includes the ability to cultivate, graze, construct homes and infrastructure freely, and enjoy unimpeded access to natural, social, and political resources.
In Haiti, Conflict, Displacement, and Health Challenges Converge
In Haiti, Conflict, Displacement, and Health Challenges Converge
Country: Haiti
Source: Direct Relief
By Lara Cooper
Health providers, data experts and community leaders convened last week to outline some of the health challenges in Haiti, compounded by gang violence, food insecurity and mass displacement.
The event was moderated by Andrew Schroeder, co-founder of CrisisReady and Vice President of Research and Analysis for Direct Relief. CrisisReady, a research-response initiative at Harvard and Direct Relief, has been tracking trends in Haiti, where Schroeder said the current situation is the most dire since the 2010 earthquake, with violent attacks on hospitals, police stations, and financial institutions becoming increasingly commonplace, along with widespread food insecurity. Nearly 5 million Haitians are experiencing acute food insecurity, according to the United Nations.
"It’s impacted every area of society and caused a mass displacement event," he said.
Dr. Natalie Colas, Internist and Medical Director at St. Luke Family Hospital in Port-au-Prince, described challenges at every level of the health system in Haiti, from health providers leaving the island to patients putting off coming to the hospital to existing staff being unable to get to work due to kidnapping risk.
St. Luke Foundation operates 10 health facilities, about half of which are in the capital. The organization has taken safety measures for employees, including allowing them to stay at a guest house for up to a week if demonstrations prevent them from getting home safely.
When able, health providers will give patients a three-month supply of prescription medication instead of monthly to limit trips that could put them at risk of gang violence, she said. But supplies and medications are scarce.
"Without an immediate option to refill them in the coming days, I don't know what we're going to do "It's really difficult for us to run the hospital," she said. "For now, we have a little bit of reserve for emergency patients."
Only two or three public hospitals in the metro area remain open, she said.
St. Luke's has oxygen production capability, an asset that allows them to continue treating patients with respiratory needs without having to make dangerous trips outside the facility to fill up oxygen canisters. Direct Relief supported the facility with oxygen canisters during the Covid-19 pandemic, and recently supported the hospital with emergency operating funds.
A noticeable spike in gang-related violence and fatalities has occurred in the country since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, said Sandra Pellegrini, Latin America and Caribbean Regional Specialist with the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, or ACLED. The nonprofit has been tracking news events in the country to identify trends.
Pellegrini said that civilians are bearing the brunt of the violence of armed groups and increased use of kidnapping and sexual violence, which is underreported but still "striking" in the data set.
The number of active gangs has also increased in recent years, and violence has expanded beyond the capital into the Artibonite and Centre regions, where violence has doubled. Gangs have focused on taking control of major highways and sea access with interceptions of supply boats.
Xavier Vollenweider, Director of Mobile Data Partnerships with Flowminder.org, a platform that has processed mobile data from cell provider Digicel, the main cell provider in Haiti, and has been monitoring population movement. Port au Prince has seen its population decrease since 2021, while cities like Cap Haitien and Les Cayes have increased. Large scale displacement
Marie Rose Romain Murphy, Co-Founder and Board President of the Haiti Community Foundation and ESPWA Inc., focused on humanitarian and disaster response. The International Office of Migration has been monitoring displacement, and more than 116,000 people have fled the capital for Haiti's southern peninsula, where Roman Murphy's foundation operates.
The destabilization and destruction of infrastructure have been decades in the making and compounded by natural disasters, she said. Romain Murphy encouraged keeping local communities and organizations at the table where decisions are being made instead of from a distance. "It starts with community and ends with community,” she said
Direct Relief, which has a long history of supporting Haitian health facilities through crisis and natural disasters, recently committed $1 million to local health facilities to support operating expenses and staff costs.
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Hey folks, I’m a ex mental health crisis worker who started a transformative mental health training institute @idha_nyc and am now an interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of critical psych, mad studies, and neuroscience at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain.
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Yeah, although we're heading to an even worse position right now. We risk losing the NHS and being forced to accept private healthcare WITHOUT a culture of health insurance. 😬
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This summer school in Tallinn looks interesting: Reason Russia from the Mind. An Original Summer School on Russian Language and Culture in an Era of Change
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More than two-thirds of young children in Chicago could be exposed to lead-contaminated water, according to an estimate by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies allow us to imagine a new future for the U.S. health care system.
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