Cultural challenges and worldwide perceptions of humanitarian care are just some of the issues facing health care in a humanitarian crisis, as a panel of Brown faculty earlier this month discussed their own experiences and views in providing care worldwide.
Professor of Emergency Medicine Adam Levine, MD, MPH, who led the panel, summed up much of the discussion with a quote from a former UN High Commissioner for Refugees: ”There are no humanitarian solutions to humanitarian problems.”
“I don’t treat underlying problems or give definitive care,” said Levine, the director for the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. “That’s what humanitarians do. They place bandages, and I think part of my education was understanding the limitations of what I could do but also understanding the importance of that work. Bandages save lives.”
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