{"id":8901,"date":"2014-10-08T17:51:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T17:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/gwach\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:36:31","slug":"birth-defects-in-iraq-the-consequences-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2014\/10\/08\/birth-defects-in-iraq-the-consequences-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Defects in Iraq: The Consequences of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global WACh is proud to co-sponsor the next Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series highlighting the effects of war on Iraqi mothers and infants. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist from the University of Michigan will be giving a talk Friday, October 24<sup>th<\/sup> at 12:30pm entitled \u201cEnvironmental Poisoning of Iraq: Why Academics Must Speak Out.\u201d Dr. Muhsin Al-Sabbak who is an obstetrician at Basrah Maternity Hospital will speak on Monday, October 27<sup>th<\/sup> on \u201cThe Epidemic of Birth Defects in Iraq: Conversations with an Iraqi Doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s event is open to the public with a reception starting at 5:30pm. Dr. Al-Sabbak will speak at 6:00 at University Temple United Methodist Church (1415 NE 43<sup>rd<\/sup> St. Seattle). Please join us for this very important and enlightening event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global WACh is proud to co-sponsor the next Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series highlighting the effects of war on Iraqi mothers and infants. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist from the University of Michigan will be giving a talk Friday, October 24th at 12:30pm entitled \u201cEnvironmental Poisoning of Iraq: Why Academics Must Speak Out.\u201d Dr&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/2014\/10\/08\/birth-defects-in-iraq-the-consequences-of-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[23,24,25],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks-and-events","tag-discovery-series","tag-iraq","tag-maternal-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18542,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/18542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/globalwach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}