Department of Global Health Guest Lecture:
“#OpenGaza: Trauma and Hope, First Hand”
Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220
Please join us for this special seminar featuring Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, MD, Executive Director, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei will describe the dire situation of physical and psychological health in Gaza through a lens of personal experience and their important work to provide health care services and to overcome the significant political barriers they face in Israel, Palestine, and Gaza. Children are especially impacted, as shown in the staggering numbers of children killed and injured last summer and the extremely high rates of ongoing traumatic stress. The impact of ongoing violence on psychological health is exacerbated by the ongoing blockade, the destruction and defunding of schools, loss of family members and friends, and stalled reconstruction efforts. We’ll structure each speaking event to also include a few minutes with a Rebuilding Alliance coordinator to help the audience learn a how to contact Congress to press for a tangible and immediate way for Gaza’s children and their families to recover and to also ask them to work on the big policy goal of ending the blockade of Gaza.
Sponsored by the University of Washington Department of Global Health, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Washington Psychiatrists for Social Responsibility, & the Global Health Resource Center
