BONUS - Ukraine's Humanitarian Crisis
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is displacing millions of people across Europe. Humanitarian expert Paul Spiegel returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about the crisis and its tremendous geopolitical significance, major public health concerns at play including mental health trauma, health care for refugees, and the added complication of COVID-19. They also talk about why this refugee crisis is different than others and how discrimination plays a key role in deciding who has access to humanitarian resources.
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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 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. |
| 0:42.6 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, Stephanie Desmond |
| 0:47.7 | talks to Johns Hopkins, Paul Spiegel, an expert in humanitarian health. Dr. Spiegel is headed to Poland this week to help the WHO handle myriad health concerns |
| 0:57.8 | among the massive number of refugees pouring out of Ukraine during the Russian invasion. |
| 1:03.1 | They discussed the devastation of this war, how it's different from previous crises, |
| 1:07.9 | and what the long-term consequences may be. Let's listen. |
| 1:12.4 | Paul Spiegel, thanks so much for joining me. Oh, it's a pleasure. It's a pleasure to |
| 1:15.9 | Stephanie. So today, I really want to talk to you about the situation in Ukraine. It's been |
| 1:22.7 | devastating to watch, and we feel incredibly helpless as we do. |
| 1:29.9 | This appears to be, along with a military crisis, a public health crisis and a humanitarian |
| 1:34.7 | crisis and probably other things that I'm not even mentioning. |
| 1:38.0 | So I'm curious if you could just sort of give us the landscape at the moment. |
| 1:42.1 | Sure. |
| 1:43.8 | I mean, what is happening is devastating, clearly. |
| 1:48.0 | It's an unprovoked war where millions and millions of people are affected directly and |
| 1:55.6 | indirectly. |
| 1:57.4 | And, you know, what makes this unique in some ways, or at least different, is because |
| 2:04.6 | it's happening in Europe. |
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