Panel 3: Refugee Health – Time for Change

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KEYNOTE SPEECH:

Tammam Aloudat, Deputy Medical Director at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)  Operational Centre Geneva

MODERATOR

Ursula Baatz, Journalist

PANEL MEMBERS

Tammam Aloudat, Deputy Medical Director at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)  Operational Centre Geneva

Ann Burton, Chie of the Public Health Section,  UNHCR

Zeina Hassan, Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Regional Coordinator, Medecins du Monde (MdM)

Kanokporn Kaojaroen, Migration and Health Technical Officer, World Health Organization (WHO)

Although dynamics of conflict and displacement have changed considerably over the past two decades, medical humanitarian assistance has been guided by set principles based on medical humanitarian priorities, which have hardly evolved over time. This static “one-size-fits-all” approach no longer responds adequately to the dynamic reality of global refugee movements . In light of today’s complex refugee situation, this panel will call for a major re-thinking of medical humanitarian aid that once again puts human beings and their medical needs front and centre.