Violence Against Healthcare in Conflict: 2025 Report
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
About this episode:
An annual report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition assesses attacks on healthcare facilities and workers in conflict. In this episode: the implications for international humanitarian law as drone warfare surges, state forces increasingly perpetrate attacks, and cuts to foreign aid exacerbate healthcare gaps.
Guest:
Joe Amon, PhD, MSPH, is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights.
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. He served as the Baltimore City Commissioner of Health from 2005 to 2009.
Show links and related content:
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Care in the Crosshairs: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict 2025—Safeguarding Health in Conflict
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Rethinking Humanitarian Health—Public Health On Call (May 2026)
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Violence Against Health Care in Conflict: 2024 Report—Public Health On Call (June 2025)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhh.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.4 | It's Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.5 | Today, a new report on attacks on health care and health care workers around the world. |
| 0:38.6 | This month, the Safeguarding Health and Conflict Coalition released its annual report, documenting |
| 0:43.9 | more than 2,500 such attacks. |
| 0:47.0 | Professor Joe Eamon is the director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at |
| 0:50.6 | the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:52.7 | He joins Dr. Josh Sharstein to |
| 0:54.9 | discuss the report and three key trends, the role of state actors, the use of drones, and the |
| 1:02.0 | consequences of cuts to USAID programs. Let's listen. Professor Joe Aman, thank you so much for |
| 1:08.2 | joining me today on Public Health on Call. How are you? |
| 1:11.6 | Good. It's my pleasure to be here. |
| 1:13.6 | So we're going to talk about this report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition. What is that coalition? |
| 1:20.6 | So the coalition started a little over 10 years ago. Professor Land Rudinstein from Hopkins was involved in the start. |
| 1:29.0 | He and I collaborated on the first report, and it was really recognizing that protections against health workers and hospitals was being violated in conflict settings. |
| 1:40.3 | But there wasn't a good process of collecting data about this. |
| 2:01.8 | There wasn't a lot of understanding of how often it was happening. There were some high profile events that occurred, including an attack on Doctors Without Borders Clinic in Afghanistan. But we wanted a more systematic and rigorous approach to looking at how big the problem was. And so we started the coalition with that purpose. And the coalition issues reports with some regularity talking about how many attacks there |
| 2:08.9 | have been on health care. That's right. We collect data with our partner in Security Insight all year |
| 2:14.4 | round through a variety of different sources, including direct reporting of attacks, |
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