1055 - Rethinking Humanitarian Health
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
About this episode:
A new report from the CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement establishes a new blueprint for humanitarian health, including giving more agency to impacted communities. In this episode: Dr. Paul Spiegel, chair of the commission, details the fundamentals of the report and the dire need for a more effective approach to helping people in desperate need at a time of escalating conflict.
Guest:
Dr. Paul Spiegel is a physician, epidemiologist, and the director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Spiegel has worked in humanitarian emergencies for the last 30 years.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is distinguished professor of the practice in Health Policy and Management, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
Show links and related content:
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Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health–Lancet Commission on health, conflict, and forced displacement: health in a world of crises and impunity—CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement
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Humanitarian Health in Gaza and Beyond—Public Health On Call (June 2025)
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| 0:50.3 | It's Lindsay Smith Rogers. Today, a vision for fundamental reform of humanitarian health efforts |
| 0:56.3 | across the globe. John Hopkins Professor, Dr. Paul Spiegel, is the chair of the Lancet Commission |
| 1:01.6 | on Health, Conflict, and Force Displacement, which has released a new report that you can find |
| 1:06.4 | linked in today's show notes. He joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about the growing need for humanitarian health operations |
| 1:13.3 | and the multiple gaps in the current efforts, which were written for a much different time. |
| 1:18.1 | He lays out the commission's vision for change from local communities all the way to the United Nations. |
| 1:23.6 | Let's listen. |
| 1:24.9 | Dr. Paul Spiegel, thank you so much for joining me today to talk about this Lancet |
| 1:29.4 | Commission report on health, conflict, and forced displacement. |
| 1:34.3 | The subtitle here is Health in a World of Crisis and Impunity. |
| 1:39.7 | And I'd like to start by asking you about the current picture of humanitarian health today in the world. |
| 1:46.7 | Thank you for having me, Josh. It's quite dire, and I'll give you some statistics. Between |
| 1:53.1 | 2021 and 2024, conflict-related deaths have nearly doubled. There are 123 million people displaced presently, which is the largest number |
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