CANCELLED - PRFDHR Seminar: Role of Public Health in Response to Armed Conflict, Professor Kaveh Khoshnood

Event time: 
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 - 2:30pm to 3:45pm
Location: 
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Virtual Via Zoom
Event description: 

Professor Khoshnood will be presenting his work on the role of public health in response to armed conflict.
Dr. Khoshnood is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale School of Public Health and executive committee member at Yale Council on Middle East Studies. He is the co-founder of Yale Violence and Health Study Group and a faculty member of the Program on Conflict, Resiliency and Health at the Yale MacMillan Center. Dr. Khoshnood is trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has more than three decades of domestic and international experience in HIV prevention research among people who use drugs and other at-risk populations. Dr. Khoshnood’s research interests include: 1) epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, 2) research ethics and 3) humanitarian health. His projects are primarily in China, Lebanon and Bhutan. Dr. Khoshnood teaches a new course on health in humanitarian crises.

Admission: 
Free but register in advance