Shaista Aziz, Press Officer, Doctors for Iraq
Dr. Evan Lyon, Partners In Health

Pizza will be served.
Kresge 110 (next to the cafeteria), Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave.

 
Shaista Aziz is a founding member of Doctors for Iraq and has served as their press officer since the organization was established.  Now a freelance journalist, Ms. Aziz has been a reporter with the BBC and Al Jazeera prior to more most recent work with Oxfam International covering the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Commonwealth of Independent States.  She has worked in emergency situations around the world, including in extensive work in Pakistan.  She served in Lebanon in 2006 during the war between Israel and Hezbollah.  Beyond speaking to the health and humanitarian situation in Iraq, Ms. Aziz will provide context from her experience in Palestine, Lebanon, and throughout the region.

Dr. Evan Lyon, a community health clinician and activist, has worked extensively with Partners In Health. He will briefly discuss the human and financial toll of the war in Iraq.

Doctors For Iraq is a medical, humanitarian, right to health organization established by a group of Iraqi doctors in Baghdad following the US invasion in 2003. Doctors For Iraq was established to provide emergency medical aid to civilians in the conflict areas of Iraq and to advocate on the right to health for patients, doctors and medical staff.  The organization has also worked to document the humanitarian crisis in Iraq. www.doctorsforiraq.org

Partners In Health is a health, advocacy, and social justice organization founded in Boston and rural Haiti in 1987.  Currently active in 9 countries, Partners In Health (PIH) works through community partners to reinforce - and when necessary rebuild - ailing public health systems with a goal of providing quality medical care for the world's poorest and most vulnerable.  www.pih.org

François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights is an academic center for research and advocacy at the Harvard School of Public Health. It engages scholars, public health and human rights practitioners, public officials, donors, and activists in the health and human rights movement. www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/

Students Against the War is a growing consortium of students at Harvard School of Public Health and other Harvard schools, who seek to foster discussion of the public health dimensions of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, and to organize actions against the war. If you would like to get involved, contact Jacob, jbor@hsph.harvard.edu