Brown Bag Lunch Series
Speaker: Joseph Amon, Director of the Health and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa has raised concerns about global health governance and respect for human rights in the context of health emergencies. Joe Amon, director of the Health and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch and associate in the department of epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, will discuss related issues around quarantine, child protection, discrimination, and the international response.
Joe Amon is the Director of the Health and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. Since joining Human Rights Watch in 2005, Joe has worked on a wide range of issues including access to medicines; the impact of discrimination on access to prevention and treatment; censorship and the denial of health information; arbitrary detention; and the role of civil society in the response to infectious disease outbreaks and environmental health threats. Between January 2009 and June 2013 he oversaw Human Rights Watch’s work on disability rights. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Joe worked for more than 15 years conducting research, designing programs, and evaluating public health interventions. Amon is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the International AIDS Society, the UNAIDS reference group on HIV and Human Rights, and the steering committee of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition. In addition, he is an associate in the department of epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and a lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University. In 2012 he was a distinguished visiting lecturer at the Paris School of International Affairs of SciencesPo. Amon has a master’s degree in tropical medicine and a Ph.D. in epidemiology.
Kosher pizza will be served.
Brown Bag Lunch Series