[net-gold] HEALTH : MEDICAL : RELIGION : COUNTRIES: HAITI : DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES: Global Health Diplomacy and the Muslim World: How Haiti Will Heal Us
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HEALTH :
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DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES:
Global Health Diplomacy and the Muslim World: How Haiti Will Heal Us
Global Health Diplomacy and the Muslim World: How Haiti Will Heal Us
Qanta Ahmed, MDBoard Certified Sleep Physician, International Author, "In
the Land of Invisible Women"
Posted: February 15, 2010 03:06 PM
Huffington Post
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qanta-ahmed/
global-health-diplomacy-a_b_462241.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yevb94v>
Hajj is the annual pilgrimage to Makkah, Saudi Arabia and a central tenet
of Islamic belief. Each year Saudi Arabia hosts 2.5 million
pilgrim-travelers as they engage in Hajj rituals. Managing their health
and safety during the world's largest mass gathering is a vast operation,
supported both by diverse sectors within the Kingdom and broad
international collaboration. The recent influenza A H1N1 pandemic posed
special risk to this extraordinarily diverse gathering, which routinely
draws visitors from over 140 nations and demanded extraordinarily
imaginative and novel solutions.
<snip>
Yet global health diplomacy is also at work when individuals engage in
acts of public service. Many such acts begin simply with excited
investigators sharing passionate enthusiasms. The collaboration and
genuine friendship which developed between Dr. Scott McNabb from the
Centers of Disease Control and Dr. Ziad Memish, Assistant Deputy Minister
of Health to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a case in point. As they
struggled with the best responses to the global threat of pandemic
coinciding with last year's Hajj, their work led to the single largest
real-time mobile databasing system engaged to detect unfolding disease at
any mass gathering. Senator John Kerry discussed precisely this endeavor
in a speech on Sunday morning in Doha at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum.
This joint US-Saudi team worked on a cutting-edge program to contain the
flu using smart-phones for real-time disease mapping. Defying the odds,
there was no spike in H1N1 flu cases after the Hajj. The on-the-ground
collaboration was headed by Dr. Osama Ibrahim, an Egyptian-American public
health expert at US Centers for Disease Control, and four other
Muslim-American doctors. This international collaboration was realized
only through both intense personal dedication and the confidence of
massive agencies placed in their people. It paid off. The program was an
unprecedented success, testament to the power of effective working
relationships built with collaborative vision: all politics, it turns out,
is personal.
Those who collaborate, write and disseminate information internationally
are long aware of the latent value of such informal, positive exchange. In
the 'Flat World' of medical academia, individual citizens exert immediate
and palpable impact. Fostering such professional dialogues are 'everyday'
(albeit unseen) acts of global health diplomacy. When investigators and
physicians work in a shared space, unfettered by the global geopolitik,
global health diplomacy becomes alive and vibrant.
<snip>
Imaginative solutions with which the Kingdom has responded to public
health challenges in Makkah at Hajj in the past have been diverse and
innovative. Recent developments include international implementation of
vaccination policies for outbreak containment; applying the physics of
crowd dynamics to predict sites of potential turbulence informing civil
engineering solutions, and the mobilization of the largest semi-permanent
multi-sector health infrastructure surge capacity at any mass gathering.
The Saudis know how to provide medical care for 2.5 million houseguests
who 'drop in' ideally placing them to advise experts in addressing the
pressing needs Haiti now faces.
<snip>
The need for US-Muslim relations to change was perhaps best articulated in
the careful treatise published recently entitled "Changing US Muslim
Relations," which identified the single most pressing crisis facing US
foreign policymakers to be the low regard with which the US is held
throughout the Muslim world. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has longed
mirrored sentiments for positive engagement internationally and is now
unfolding some of the Kingdom's most ambitious initiatives himself. Most
notably, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
was inaugurated this past fall. KAUST is founded on the overarching
directive to promote and protect academic freedom and foster the
international exchange this will demand and challenging some commonly held
misperceptions concerning the contribution of the Muslim world to science
or lack thereof.
<snip>
We are finding Saudi Arabia's experience of Hajj medicine contains rapidly
evolving public health solutions to a number of global challenges. There
has never been a better time to share this experience.
<snip>
Poignantly, in reaching out to helping our fellow Haitian, we are helping
all of humankind by broadening our engagement across all borders, across
all creeds, across all politics, across all divides. Ultimately, through
individual and agency acts of global health diplomacy , whether Hajj
planners, aid workers, volunteers, donors, behemoth agencies, or military
forces, little Haiti, I know, can heal us.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Sincerely,
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Temple University
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