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Ronald J. Waldman, M.D., M.P.H. is Director of the Center for Global Health and Economic Development at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, and former Director of its Program on Forced Migration and Health. Dr. Waldman began his career with the World Health Organization’s Global Smallpox Eradication Program in Bangladesh. He subsequently worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than twenty years where, among other assignments, he directed technical support activities for the Combating Childhood Communicable Diseases Project. In the 1980s and 1990s he and his colleagues at the CDC published a series of studies on the epidemiology of refugee health. He has worked in complex emergencies in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Albania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and, most recently, Iraq.
Dr. Waldman was the coordinator of the Task Force on Cholera Control at WHO from 1992-1994 and the Technical Director of the USAID-funded child survival BASICS Project from 1995-1999. He serves in an advisory capacity to a number of international non-governmental organizations, including the International Rescue Committee, Action Against Hunger, and Doctors of the World and is a member of the Board of Directors of Physician for Human Rights. He recently served as currently co-coordinator of the Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health and was a lead author of its report, “Who’s got the power — transforming health systems for women and children” for the UN Millennium Project.
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Rachel T. Moresky, M.D., M.P.H. is currently the Founding Director of International Emergency Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian-University Hospitals of Columbia and Cornell Division of Emergency Medicine, where she is also developing an International Emergency Medicine Fellowship. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and full time Emergency Medicine Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian.
Dr. Moresky completed a Fellowship in International Emergency Medicine at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She also completed her Masters in Public Health in Population and International Health at The Harvard School of Public Health. She served as an Instructor in Medicine — Harvard Medical School and as an Associate Attending Physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Moresky also completed her BS in Engineering at Brown University focusing on the development of medical products for low income nations.
Dr. Moresky has implemented and collaborated on projects with the WHO, USAID and other NGOs in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, India and Romania. She has extensive experience in the Middle East and is currently working on projects in Gujarat India and Tanzania on Emergency Medicine Training and pre-hospital care. She was one of the collaborative authors on the Head and Neck Trauma Guidelines — Essential Trauma Care Program, Violence and Injury Prevention Department, a World Health Organization project. Most recently, Dr. Moresky spent a month in Aceh Utara, a northern province of Indonesia, where she served as a health officer for The International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Mobile Emergency Relief Team. Dr. Moresky provided public health assistance on large-scale measles immunization projects, provided medical care for patients in IDP camp clinics and worked on infrastructure development. Her interests include international emergency medicine systems development to improve timely access to medical care in low income countries; humanitarian relief; disaster medicine and public health applications of emergency medical care.
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