Earthquakes in Syria and Turkey

Our panelists:

• Mark Ward retired from the Foreign Service at the rank of Career Minister after more than thirty years. He served in high risk environments like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya and along the Turkish-Syrian border, overseeing US Government aid programs and coordinating international aid for the United Nations. Most recently, he was the US Government’s chair of a task force to improve humanitarian access for Syria, co-chaired with the Russian Federation, at the UN in Geneva. Mr. Ward also has extensive experience with public-private partnerships to prepare for and respond to natural and man-made disasters.

• Dr. David Townes is an emergency medicine physician and professor of Emergency Medicine and an adjunct associate professor of Global Health at the University of Washington. He is an advisor to the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at the United States Agency for International Development and medical epidemiologist in the International Emergency Response and Recovery Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Townes has worked all over the world from Antarctica to Zambia in expedition medicine and on humanitarian missions. He is an editor of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine published by Cambridge University Press. and clinical pediatrics professor at the UW school of medicine.

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