Monday, December 2, 2024
 0800-0900 EST / 1400-1500 CET / 1500-1600 Cairo / 1600-1700 Nairobi / 2100-2200 Manila 

Join us for a webinar hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health (CHH)-Lancet Commission focusing on the critical topic of international laws and treaties as they pertain to humanitarian settings and health.

This webinar explores the multi-layered legal standards governing populations affected by conflict settings, focusing on the interplay between international human rights, armed conflict, and refugee laws, with a focus on health. It also examines why new international treaties may not resolve persistent policy and operational gaps, and different ways to improve accountability.

Webinar Details:

• Date: Monday, December 2, 2024 
• Time: 0800-0900 EST / 1400-1500 CET / 1500-1600 Cairo / 1600-1700 Nairobi / 2100-2200 Manila 
• Duration: 1 hour
• Format: Presentations followed by a Q&A session
• Registration link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ePQ6_eyQS_GYQHB6SLTU2A#/registration

Agenda:

• Introduction (5 minutes) – Ana Mateus, Executive Editor, The Lancet, and Paul Spiegel, Distinguished Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Director of CHH, and Chair of the CHH-Lancet Commission
• Presentations (10 minutes each):
  • David Cantor, Professor and founding Director of the Refugee Law Initiative at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, Commissioner of CHH-Lancet Commission
    • Overview of legal frameworks – covering International Humanitarian Law (IHL), refugee law, and human rights.
  • Malavika Rao, Postdoctoral Researcher at C-EENRG, Department of Land Economy, at the University of Cambridge, NextGen Scholar of CHH-Lancet Commission
    • Compliance and accountability mechanisms in humanitarian law.
  • Hugo Slim, Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at the University of Oxford and at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, Commissioner of CHH-Lancet Commission
    • Exploration of the complexities of law versus interpretation in practice.
• Interactive Q&A (25 minutes) – Engage directly with our panelists.

Audience Participation:

• Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and provide comments during the webinar.
• Given the CHH-Lancet Commission wishes to have global participation and insight into the complex and challenging questions facing the humanitarian system, there will be curated questions at the end of the webinar where anyone can send responses via a Google Doc link shared post-webinar to continue the conversation beyond the live Q&A.

There will be quarterly CHH-Lancet Commission webinars throughout 2025 addressing important and challenging issues that face the humanitarian community to ensure that the Commission receives as much input from all interested colleagues from anywhere in the world.  Stay tuned for future webinars.