About the Summit
The Humanitarian Action Summit provides a forum for discussion and strategic thinking around emerging issues in humanitarian action. The Summit brings together leaders and experts from international, non-governmental, academic and health institutions, assembled in working groups that focus on major cross-cutting themes that have immediate relevance to current humanitarian aid and health sector issues.
Humanitarian Action Summit: 2011
The 2011 Summit will bring together over 200 strategic level leaders from NGO's, UN agencies, donor agencies and federal agencies to discuss complex issues that face the NGO community. The Summit will build directly upon the momentum from the prior Humanitarian Health Conferences, utilize our network of humanitarian leaders, and develop an expanded agenda of critical topics facing the humanitarian health community. In so doing, the 2011 Summit will be a unique and vital venue for humanitarian strategists.
The 2011 Summit will follow a similar work-plan from that developed in 2009. Based on changing needs and emerging issues in the humanitarian health field, the 2011 working groups will be introduced and developed to address these emerging themes. The following are key themes that will be addressed in the form of working groups and plenary sessions:
- Global climate change and environmental migration: Adaptation of organizational strategy to climate related humanitarian emergencies.
- Field Level Coordination Among Civilian and Military Humanitarian Actors: Strategies for improving field dialogue
- Applied Technology for Humanitarian Action: Next steps in advancing mobile communications and geospatial tools
- Civilian Protection in Conflict, Phase III: Implementing human rights principles on the frontlines
- Urbanization and Humanitarian Access: Challenges to program design in urban settings
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Conference Co-Chairs
- Frederick "Skip" M. Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH, DTM, FAAP, FACEP
Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative - Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH
Co-Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Planning Committee
- Richard J. Brennan
International Rescue Committee - Karen Hein
ChildFund Alliance - Julian Lambert
Adaptive Eyewear - James C. Strickler
Dartmouth Medical School
Board of Advisors
- Nancy Aossey
President & CEO, International Medical Corps - Deborah Baglole
Humanitarian Advisor, Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department Operations Team (CHASE OT), Department for International Development, United Kingdom - Peter Bell
Former President and CEO of CARE USA
Senior Research Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School - Marvin Birnbaum
Editor-in-Chief, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine - Ken Isaacs
Vice President, Samaritan's Purse - Neal Keny-Guyer
CEO, Mercy Corps - Ted Okada
Director, Microsoft Humanitarian Systems - George Rupp
President & CEO, International Rescue Committee - Anne Scott
Vice President, Christian Children's Fund - Gino Strada
CEO, Emergency - Claire Thwaites
Head of The Vodafone Foundation - Ronald Waldman
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University - Lori Warrens
Executive Director, Partnership for Quality Medical Donations