466 - An Update on Ukraine's Humanitarian Crisis
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Humanitarian expert Dr. Paul Spiegel is back from Poland where he has been working with the WHO for the last six weeks. Spiegel talks with Stephanie Desmon about his work helping to coordinate the massive response for millions of Ukranian refugees seeking shelter throughout Europe. They talk about providing psychological first aid and basic care for refugees, what makes this situation different from others, and the frustration that many humanitarian crises aren't always met with the same resources and support.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former |
| 0:19.1 | health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.3 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Paul Spiegel, who heads the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, |
| 0:49.3 | about the millions of Ukrainian refugees whose lives have been completely upended by war. |
| 0:56.2 | Dr. Spiegel is just back from a stint working for the World Health Organization as an emergency |
| 1:01.6 | coordinator, and they discuss what he has seen. Let's listen. |
| 1:07.6 | Paul Spiegel, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:10.2 | That's a pleasure, Stephanie. |
| 1:11.6 | So you have just returned from Eastern Europe, where you were working with refugees from the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:18.6 | And I'm wondering if you could first remind our listeners the work you were doing. |
| 1:23.6 | Certainly. So I was the emergency coordinator for WHO the World Health Organization for the last |
| 1:30.8 | six and a half weeks for the refugee response so I was helping WHO coordinate their response in the |
| 1:39.0 | refugee hosting current countries there are five that are contiguous as as well as the Czech Republic, which has been |
| 1:47.0 | receiving a tremendous amount of these refugees. So you have been to a lot of humanitarian |
| 1:53.0 | crises in your career. Talk to me about how this one looked compared to others. Yeah. Well, I've been doing this last, sadly, I looked, and it's |
| 2:04.2 | been 30 years now. I've been doing this sort of work. And this is one of the most different and |
| 2:10.6 | interesting responses that I've seen. And it's primarily because, except for Moldova, all of the other surrounding countries are |
| 2:19.2 | part of the European Union, and they are both highly regulated because they're part of the EU, |
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