New Report Highlights Problem Of Attacks On Health Care Workers In Conflict-Afflicted Countries

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s “Global Health NOW”: Fast-Track Protection for Health Workers
Leonard Rubenstein, chair of the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition and director of the Program on Human Rights, Health and Conflict at the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses findings from a new “report by Human Rights Watch and the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition showing that at least 20 countries undergoing conflict and civil unrest since January 2014 have experienced such attacks [on health workers, medical facilities, and patients]” (5/20).

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