Famine: Starvation as a Tool of War in Yemen, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Gaza
Nov 12th
2024
Tuesday
11:45 am
Columbia University Program on Forced Migration and Health (PFMH) Talk and Webinar:
In-Person for Columbia University affiliates only
Webinar open to the public
- Speaker: Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation and Research Professor at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. Professor de Waal will examine the key metrics for different food crises and famines and explore the patterns of causation.
Professor de Waal is an authority on famine and has worked on the Horn of Africa since the 1980s as a researcher and practitioner. He was listed among Foreign Policy’s 100 most influential international intellectuals in 2008 and Atlantic’s 29 ‘brave thinkers’ in 2009 and is the winner of the Huxley Award of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2024. De Waal’s recent books include: Mass Starvation: The history and future of famine (2018), and New Pandemics, Old Politics: 200 years of the war on disease and its alternatives (2021).
- Moderator: Rachel T. Moresky, MD, MPH, Acting Director, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Director, sidHARTe – Strengthening Emergency Systems Program and Columbia University Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health & Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons