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Paul Spiegel is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and professor of the Practise in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has spent decades working in the field of refugee health, including with MédecinsSans Frontières, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR).
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In the first issue of the Humanitarian Health Digest, Paul Spiegel stresses the need to highlight the lack of palliative care in humanitarian emergencies. Both refugees and nationals with life-limiting illnesses need more dignified, cost-effective care, he argues.
In an excerpt from The Lancet, refugee health expert Paul Spiegel argues that the humanitarian system is broken and urges wholesale reform, outlining four ways that humanitarians need to change to be equipped for future public health action in crises.
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