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Roundtable discussion: Safety of Health Workers in Conflict Settings

Watch as Assefa Seme Deresse & Anna Kalbarczyk discuss the challenges of ensuring the safety of healthcare workers in conflict settings. (Step 4.12)

Experts discuss the challenges of ensuring the safety of healthcare workers in conflict settings.

Presenter 1: Assefa Seme Deresse, MD, MPH School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Presenter 2: Anna Kalbarczyk, DrPH, MPH Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Moderator: Malabika Sarker, MBBS, MPH, PhD James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh

Do you agree or disagree with the roundtable guests? Do you think it’s ethical for the international alliance to require or even encourage health workers to be in conflict areas, or areas where their safety might be at risk?
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