The Yale Colloquium series on Humanitarian Systems builds on three years of research and conversations related to humanitarianism, with a view to make significant contributions to discussions on the future of humanitarian interventions. 

This first event was focused on forced migration and humanitarian policy, held on Thursday 4 October at the Jackson Institute. The speakers prepared written papers, drawing upon their long-term experiences in humanitarian work.

Speakers

Sara BARRAGÁN is Consultant for the WHO. She worked for the migration program of WHO in Europe, where she was responsible for policy and advocacy activities. She co-wrote the first European resolution, strategy and action plan on refugee and migrant health, and assisted the intergovernmental negotiations up to their adoption.  Her consultancy work focuses on political and policy analysis in the areas of health equity and emergencies, while writing for two books, on the governance and the political economy of health and forced migration.

Bayard ROBERTS is Professor of Health Systems and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a co-investigator of the STRENGTHS study which seeks to provide effective community-based mental health care implementation strategies to scale-up the delivery and uptake of Problem Management + for Syrian refugees in Europe and countries bordering Syria. In this project Bayard is leading work analyzing the country health systems to support the potential scaling-up of PM+. Bayard is co-editing a new book on health policy and systems responses to forced migration.

Maggie POWERS is an Adviser for the Welcoming and Integrated Societies Division at the Open Society Foundations, an Adviser for the Columbia International Mobility Group (CIMG), a Commission Member of the Model International Mobility Convention, and the Former Associate Director at the Columbia Global Policy Initiative (CGPI) at Columbia University.