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This is Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, an interview with Dr. Paul Spiegel, the Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

From November 24th to December 21st, Dr. Spiegel served in Cairo, Egypt as a strategic advisor to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the health response in Gaza.

He speaks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about this experience.

Let's listen.

Dr. Paul Spiegel, it is great to see you on this Zoom.

Let me just start by asking, where are you right now?

I am currently in a small town called Huttum in the Netherlands.

And what brings you to the Netherlands?

Well, my wife's family lives here and I've just returned from a month in Cairo, working on the Gaza crisis.

So that's what we're here to talk to you about, that experience.

I want to start though just by asking to introduce yourself again to our audience and

maybe give them a sense of how you wound up in Cairo working on the Gaza crisis.

Sure. So I'm a Canadian physician epidemiologist and I've spent the last 30 years or so working in

humanitarian emergencies.

I started, as many do, working with NGOs like doctors of the world and doctors without

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