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LERRN-IDRC Webinar | Forced Displacement and Health in the Context of the Pandemic: Localized Responses to COVID- 19’s Impact on Refugees, IDPs, and Communities Living in Chronic Displacement
Thursday, June 24, 2021 from 9:00 am to 10:30 am
- In-person event
- Contact
- lerrn@carleton.ca
The seventh webinar in the LERRN–IDRC Webinar Series on Forced Displacement focuses on forced displacement and health systems in the Global South. The webinar will examine what the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic reveals about how health systems respond to the health needs of the forcibly displaced and how social, cultural and economic factors and power relations shape responses. Drawing on lessons from Bangladesh, Syria, and the West Bank and Gaza, it will consider how localized actors and approaches can identify areas of innovation to improve access and health outcomes for refugees, IDPs and other forcibly displaced people.
Moderators:
James Milner
- Project Director, LERRN
Montasser Kamal
- Program Leader for Health Research Partnerships, IDRC
Panelists:
Muzna Dureid
- Liaison Officer, The White Helmets
Sabina F. Rashid
- Dean & Professor, BRAC School of Public Health, BRAC University
Weeam Hammoudeh
- Assistant Professor, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University
This is the seventh in a series of webinars co-hosted by LERRN and IDRC. These monthly seminars will address several dimensions of forced displacement, with an emphasis on the perspectives of actors who are closest to the issues being discussed. For event details, recordings, and post-webinar reports, click HERE.
LERRN is a team of researchers and practitioners committed to promoting protection and solutions with and for refugees. The goal is to ensure that refugee research, policy and practice are shaped by a more inclusive, equitable and informed collective engagement of civil society.
Part of Canada’s foreign affairs and development efforts, IDRC invests in knowledge, innovation, and solutions to improve the lives of people in the developing world. Bringing together the right partners around opportunities for impact, IDRC builds leaders for today and tomorrow and helps drive change for those who need it most.