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Paul B. Spiegel (born 1965 [1] ) is a Canadian physician, epidemiologist, and academic who specializes in humanitarian health.
He is the Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University.[ citation needed ]
Spiegel was born in Toronto, Canada. [1]
He has a bachelor's degree from Western University in 1987, a degree in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1991, and a masters in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1996. [2]
Spiegel's career took him to refugee camps in Kenya in 1992 and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire at the time) in 1995 where he worked as a medical coordinator for both Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde, respectively. [1] [3] [4] He has worked at the Centers for Disease Control in the international emergency and refugee health branch as an epidemiologist, [3] where he won the Charles C. Shepard award outstanding contribution to public health. [5] In 2002, he joined United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees where he started the HIV unit. He then became the Chief of the Public Health and HIV section in 2006. In 2011, he became the Deputy Director of the Department of Programme Support and Management where he oversaw four sections: public health; cash programming, shelter and settlements; and operations, solutions and transitions. [6] [7] He has also worked as a consultant with the Pan American Health Organization and the Canadian Red Cross. [4]
He is currently the Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health and a Distinguished Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, [8] [9] chair of The CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement, and co-chair of the UCL–Lancet Migration. [2]
He has published over 150 academic articles on humanitarian health and migration, including: [4]
Spiegel is married and has one daughter. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. [16]
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