Saint Michael's College

"Re-thinking Globalization"

Saint Michael's College presents world renown pediatrician, surgeon and public health physician, Dr. Frederick ("Skip") Burkle '61, speaking on on "Re-thinking Globalization: Coming Humanitarian Crises." Dr. Burkle has had a distinguished career in international emergency and disaster relief. He has consulted on many humanitarian emergencies and large-scale disasters in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Dr. Burkle served as Joint Civil Military Liaison for the Kurdish Crisis in southern Turkey, northern Iraq and Baghdad; he was also a UN Delegate to the 3rd Somalia Conference in Ethiopia. In 1996, he headed up a global health assessment team for the International Rescue Committee in the former Yugoslavia. In Iraq, in the lead-up to the war in 2003, he was the Senior Medical Officer on the Disaster Assistance Response Team for USAID; he was also the interim minister of health in Iraq during the relief phase of the crisis.

Dr. Burkle currently serves as Senior Scholar and Scientist, and Visiting Professor at the Center for International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies at Johns Hopkins, and Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has published over 100 scientific articles, abstracts, and book chapters, along with four books.

This event is co-sponsored by the Vermont Global Health Coalition.