Armed Conflict, Public Health, Human Security, & Health Diplomacy
From the monthly archives:
Last month, the UN Security Council voted unanimously (which is not an easy feat) to classify rape as a tactic in war and a threat to international security:
Stresses that sexual violence, when used or commissioned as a tactic of war in order to deliberately target civilians or as a part of a widespread or systematic [...]
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If I could convey one message to the general public about the USS Kearsarge’s mission, it would be this: Off the coast of Nicaragua 1500 Americans, Canadians, Dutch, and even a German are working 18+ hour per day, seven days a week, to provide health care and a better life to the residents of Puerto [...]
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On April 15th 1961, CIA operated B-26B bombers took off from a covert CIA-built airstrip in Nicaragua, codenamed ‘Happy Valley’. Their mission was to support an upcoming amphibious landing in Cuba’s Bahía de Cochinos, better known as the Bay of Pigs. Today, 47 years later on that same airstrip, US Marine Corp CH-53E helicopters landed [...]
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The vague term ‘New Media’ popularly refers to the recent phenomena of amateur, semi-professional, and professional online journalists (often called bloggers). While I am a researcher and not a journalist in any form, my site War & Health uses blogging software, and it were my writings on War & Health that got me invited by [...]
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The USS Kearsarge has an impressive medical facility onboard, second only to that of a hospital ship. However, the facility was designed to handle the combat casualties of a Marine Expeditionary Unit, not pediatric cleft pallet and cleft lip surgeries. I asked Commander Damstra, who was originally trained as a family physician, how the Kearsarge [...]
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The Wardroom on the USS Kearsarge is the officer’s cafeteria, conference room, lecture hall, 24 hour coffee house and social club for the officers, foreign militaries, and NGOs onboard the Kearsarge. However, the Wardroom’s most valuable function is more subtle: as a point of information exchange and social networking onboard the ship.
While the Kearsarge’s crew [...]
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Greetings from the USS Kearsarge. We got underway less than 24 hours ago, so my observations of the mission are only cursory at this point. Two quick ones. First, the ship is packed with medical personnel. So far, I have seen and/or met medical personnel from the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Copr, Coast [...]
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