Please join the Program on Forced Migration and Health for a special event with Alex de Waal. Professor de Waal will examine the key metrics for different food crises and famines and explore the patterns of causation.
Famine: Starvation as a Tool of War in Yemen, Ethiopia, Sudan, Gaza
Alex de Waal
Executive Director, the World Peace Foundation
Research Professor, the Fletcher School, Tufts University
Professor de Waal is an authority on famine and has worked on the Horn of Africa since the 1980s as a researcher and practitioner. He was listed among Foreign Policy's 100 most influential international intellectuals in 2008 and Atlantic's 29 'brave thinkers' in 2009 and is the winner of the Huxley Award of the Royal Anthropological Institue in 2024. De Waal's recent books include: Mass Starvation: The history and future of famine (2018), and New Pandemics, Old Politics: 200 years of the war on disease and its alternativs (2021).
Registration
Note: In-person attendance is open to Columbia ID holders. (The in-person registration deadline is November 11, 2024). The Zoom webinar is open to the public.
Online: Use this Zoom link.
In-Person: Click on "Register" below.
This event is sponsored by the Program on Forced Migration and Health in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.