Join the People, Place and Health Collective, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the School of Public Health, the Center for Middle East Studies and the New Directions in Palestinian Studies program for a discussion about the joint London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/Johns Hopkins University report titled “Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact Projections”, which has projected the number of excess deaths over the next few months in the strip based on a variety of scenarios. The report estimates more than 75,000 lives can be saved if there is a ceasefire. Read the report at https://gaza-projections.org/.

Over the last few months, more than 30,000 Palestinians have died in the war on Gaza. Disease, starvation and malnutrition now threaten the population - already a number of children have died of malnutrition. The UN is warning that famine is imminent. A number of human rights organizations, aid agencies and US senators have accused Israeli forces of obstructing and limiting the delivery of aid. As the LSHTM/JHU report outlines, this is a grave public heath catastrophe that demands immediate attention. 

Speaker:

Zeina Jamaluddine is a nutritionist and epidemiologist and a research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is one of the lead authors of the joint report between the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Johns Hopkins titled “Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact Projections.”

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