Syria's Assad regime has, with increasing intensity over the past year, systematically targeted medical facilities, staff and patients with profound human consequences. The armed opposition have also defied the impartiality and neutrality of medical services.
Please join us on Friday, May 10, from 2:00-4:00pm at CSIS for a roundtable discussion. Panelists will discuss the trajectory of attacks, the resulting institutional damage and public health implications, evolving efforts by governments, international bodies and NGOs to mitigate these impacts, and prospects in the future for accountability and rehabilitation.
Speakers:
Stephen Cornish
Médecins Sans Frontières
Leonard Rubenstein
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Zaher Sahloul
Syrian American Medical Society
Dorothy Shea
U.S. Department of State
Moderated by:
J. Stephen Morrison
Vice President; and Director, Global Health Policy Center
Center for Strategic and International Studies
