To NIHAC members who have an interest in this topic, Richard Garfield is a
leading expert.

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The School of Public Health and Community Medicine and the School of Nursing
are pleased to co-sponsor the following presentation.

POST-WAR DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES IN HEALTH CARE IN IRAQ

Richard Garfield, RN, DrPH, FAAN
Henrik H. Bendixen Clinical Professor of International Nursing
Columbia University School of Nursing
Visiting Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Friday, March 19, 2004
10:00 am
Room T-625, Warren Magnuson Health Sciences Center

Richard Garfield is a Professor of Nursing and Coordinator of a WHO/PAHO
Nursing Collaborating Center at Columbia University and Visiting Professor
at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He combines the
qualitative perspective of community health promotion and the quantitative
skills of epidemiology to assess morbidity and mortality changes among
civilian groups in humanitarian crises around the world. He has assessed the
impact of economic embargoes in Cuba, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Liberia
for national governments and UN organizations. He visited Iraq 6 times
during 1996 - 2003 to collaborate with UNICEF, the World Food Program, and
the Iraqi Ministry of Health. He evaluated the quality of mortality studies
and created independent estimates of mortality changes, evaluated the
overall humanitarian impact of the Oil for Food program, participated in
research on income and living standards in northern Iraq, pioneered a joint
analysis of 45 studies of nutritional status during the 1990s, and assisted
in medium term planning for social sector assistance prior to the 2003 war.
Since the 2003 war, he worked in Iraq for WHO and UNICEF to assist in
reconstruction, manage reactivation of health services, and prepare the
post-Oil for Food UN program.

If you have questions or would like written material by Dr. Garfield prior
to his presentation, please contact Carmen Matthews, director of
international programs, School of Nursing, at <carmenm@...>.