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Humanitarian Action Summit: Exploring the Edges of Humanitarian Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Michael J. VanRooyen  and
Frederick M. Burkle Jr.
Michael J. VanRooyen*
Affiliation:
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Frederick M. Burkle Jr.
Affiliation:
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC USA Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA Professor, Department of Community Emergency Health & Paramedic Practice, Monash University Medical School, Melbourne, Australia
*
Harvard Humanitarian InitiativeDivision of International Health and Humanitarian ProgramsBrigham and Women's Hospital75 Francis Street Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Extract

The Summit, now in its third year, was developed to address some major points of need and controversy in the humanitarian field, to establish a dialogue among practitioners and humanitarian strategists, and to promote discussion about complex and controversial issues that face the humanitarian community. What follows in this publication is a detailed review of the goals, deliberations, and recommendations of the Working Groups, concluding with an analysis of future needs. The authors hope that the Summit, and the resulting action items, serve as a launching point for organizational, governmental, and United Nations practices and policies to advance the professionalism, quality and accountability of humanitarian intervention.

Keywords

accountabilitychallengeshumanitarian communityhumanitarian healthissuesnon-governmental organizationprivate voluntary organization
Type
Bookend I
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , supplement S2: 2009 Humanitarian Action Summit , August 2009 , pp. s181 - s183
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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