Hear an in-depth look at the Ebola crisis Join UNA-USA for a nationwide conference call, December 9 at 2 p.m. ET A Look at Public Health and the Ebola Outbreak with Dr. David Peters Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Tuesday, December 9, 2 p.m. ET U.S./Canada Dial-in: 888.617.5714 Passcode: 8105238 Please RSVP via email to [email protected]. ***** The worlds largest and most deadly Ebola epidemic continues to rage in three West African countries. One of the most urgent needs in this crisis is for experienced and properly trained medical personnel. Join us for a conversation with Dr. David H. Peters of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who recently returned from Liberia where he provided on-the-ground public health assistance. Dr. Peters will provide a unique look at the challenges of the outbreak and reasons for hope in the future. About our speaker: David H. Peters, MD, MPH, DrPH, is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a specialist in international health systems who has worked as a researcher, policy advisor, educator, bureaucrat, manager, and clinician in developing countries over the last two decades. He previously worked as a Senior Public Health Specialist at the World Bank, and as the Director of the Health Systems Program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is Research Director for the Future Health Systems research consortium, which is working to improve access, affordability and quality of health services for the poor, with field sites in five countries in Africa and Asia. His teaching and research focus on the performance of health systems, poverty and health systems, innovations in organization, technology, and financing of health systems, the role of the private sector, human resource management, and ways to use donor assistance to strengthen local capacity in low-income countries, pioneering the development of Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) in health and creating the first national Balanced Scorecard to assess and manage health services (in Afghanistan).
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