Category: Iraq

CDC Staffers Take No Refuge From Helping Refugees Around the World

A child plays with a kite in a tent camp after the earthquake, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2010.

For anybody wondering why CDC has a branch dedicated to helping refugees or why the United Nations has formally recognized World Refugee Day every year since it was created in 2001, the answer can be found in a single, stark statistic: In 2013, a person became a new refugee or internally displaced person every Read More >

June 20, 2014 by Cyrus Shahpar, MD, MBA, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, CDC Emergency Response and Recovery Branch; and Michelle Dynes, PhD, MPH, MSN, CNM, RN, EIS Officer/Epidemiologist, CDC Emergency Response and Recovery Branch1 Comment

Archive, infectious disease, refugee health

EIS, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Syrian civil war, Turkey, urban refugee, World Refugee Day

Focusing on Mental Health in a Humanitarian Crisis

The Syrian refugee crisis has been two years in the making. It represents the culmination of the conflict between the Syrian government and its own people, a violent conflict that has greatly affected the civilian population and caused Syrians to flee in large numbers. Up to 1,000 people are now leaving the country each day; Read More >

May 13, 2013 by Barbara Lopes Cardozo MD MPH, Medical Officer with the Emergency Response and Recovery Branch, Division of Global Health Protection (proposed)

Archive, child health, mental health, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), refugee health, violence and injury

Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria, Turkey