GHLC at JHU: Mr. Brigg Reilley

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Mr. Brigg Rielley presents on Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders:

Help people in troubled areas

Key rules:

1. Be neutral (especially in warzones)

2. Impartiality - see everyone who needs treatment (even if they are combatants)

3. Independence - act without government help to prevent government interference

MSF active in 72 countries

Responding to:

1. Armed conflict

    Cooperate with the person in charge - prevent conflict

    Have multiple vehicles

    Local drivers

2. Environmental disasters

    Be there early

    It disrupts existing efforts

3. Exclusion from healthcare

    Helping people who can't get help

4. Forced displacement

    Gangs

    Violence

    Things like people on US border

    Prevent trauma

5. Epidemics

    Vaccination

    Treatment

How MSF responds

1. Primary clinics

2. Mobile clinics - motorcycles, boats

    You are out all day, and it takes a while to get back - that means you treat as many as possible, even if there is untreatable, dangerously ill person

3. Hospital support

4. Surgery

5. Vaccination

6. Nutritional support

    Develop portable food packets

7. Maternal health

8. Water/sanitation

9. Prevention

10. Pre-developed kits that can be custom-ordered

GHLC at JHU: Dr. Connie Hoe

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Dr. Connie Hoe, MSW, PhD, Assistant Professor, International Health Department, Health Systems Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, presents on Industry Inference with Public Health Policies.

Industry Interference in Public Health Policy:

People involved in policy making

    Political elite

    The State

    Nonstate actors

    Advocacy groups

Companies like tobacco promote policies detrimental to health

Commercial determinants of health: strategies and approaches used by the private sector to promote products and choices that are detrimental to health

Dynamics of commercial determinants: drivers, channels, outcomes

WHO FCTC adopted a resolution to protect policies from tobacco companies

Tobacco industry tactics: good image, influence, legal challenges

Control tactics: scientific evidence, exposing tactics, advocacy, alliances

Case study: Phillippines

Low-income country, high tobacco and alcohol usage

Sin Tax Reform Law

    Indexed tobacco and alcohol taxes to inflation

    Incremental revenues earmarked for health

The Global Burden of Road Traffic Deaths

Drunk driving laws important - not many countries have them

More investments and lobbying necessary