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Richard Garfield
Henrik H. Bendixen Professor of Clinical of International Nursing, Columbia Nursing School
Biography:
Dr. Garfield combines qualitative perspective of community health promotion and the quantitative approaches of epidemiology to assess morbidity and mortality changes among civilian groups in humanitarian crises. He has assessed the humanitarian impact of conflict and economic embargoes in Cuba, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan Iraq, and Liberia for UN organizations, was the founding director of the World Health Organization-led Health and Nutrition Tracking Service in Geneva, coauthored WHO?s World Report on Violence and currently chair of the Collective Violence Group of the Global Burden of Disease project. He has assisted Ministries of Health in supporting mid level and professional nursing staff in Liberia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Sudan, northeast Brazil, Afghanistan, and in hurricane Katrina-affected Louisiana in the U.S. In 2009 he led the 5-year post disaster evaluation of recovery in health in tsunami-affected countries for UNICEF and Save the Children.
Since the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he has assisted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the UN and the Haitian Government to organize relief and recovery programs on the ground. His major effort is to rebuild the systems to train and employ mid-level health workers to make the health system more effective and responsive to the Haitian people?s needs. Since returning to the U.S. from the World Health Organization, he has continued to work closely with the Office of the Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in developing and carrying out inter-sectoral joint needs assessments following sudden onset emergencies in Myanmar, Haiti, and most recently Pakistan. View Faculty CV here (PDF).
Since the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he has assisted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the UN and the Haitian Government to organize relief and recovery programs on the ground. His major effort is to rebuild the systems to train and employ mid-level health workers to make the health system more effective and responsive to the Haitian people?s needs. Since returning to the U.S. from the World Health Organization, he has continued to work closely with the Office of the Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in developing and carrying out inter-sectoral joint needs assessments following sudden onset emergencies in Myanmar, Haiti, and most recently Pakistan. View Faculty CV here (PDF).
Education & Training:
DrPH, Columbia University, 1987
RN, Hahnemann , 1976
Affiliation(s):
Mailman School Affiliations:
- Center for Public Health Preparedness
- Program on Forced Migration
Selected
Global
Activities:
Global
Activities:
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emergency disaster assessment
leading emergency UN assessment programs in haiti, maynam, and pakistan
Countries: Pakistan
global burden of violence
assessment of level and nature of civilian and combatant injury in death around the world
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