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Webinar: Treating Non-Communicable Diseases During Humanitarian Emergencies

November 10, 2017 By Curtis Cosby

Recorded November 8, 2017 — Dr. Linda Mobula presents “Treating Non-Communicable Diseases During Humanitarian Emergencies.”

Dr. Mobula currently serves a Public Health and Infectious Disease advisor with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at the United States Agency for International Development. She holds a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the University of Arizona, an MD from UCSF with a concentration in Global Health, and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with a concentration in Health in Crisis and Humanitarian Emergencies. Dr. Mobula served with Samaritan’s Purse during the Ebola response in Liberia and the USAID/OFDA Ebola response in Guinea.

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Download the slides from this presentation.

Conflict and Health: Non-Communicable Diseases in Humanitarian Settings: Ten Essential Questions

PLOS Current Disasters: Prevalence of Hypertension Among Patients Attending Mobile Medical Clinics in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan 

PLOS Medicine: Non-Communicable Diseases in Disasters: A Call To Action

PLOS Medicine: Three Steps to Improve Management of Noncommunicable Diseases in Humanitarian Crises

WHO: Non-Communicable Diseases in Emergencies

WHO: Global Status Report on Noncommunicable Diseases 2010 

Cambridge University Press: Burden of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality Following Humanitarian Emergiencies

MSF: Non-Communicable Diseases – Programmatic and Clinical Guidelines (MSF OCA)

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Beyond this Presentation

If you enjoyed this session, you might also enjoy Dr. Mobula’s previous presentations on Post-Ebola Syndrome, Vitamin A Deficiency and Clinical Disease, and Cholera Epidemic Response.

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Filed Under: Disaster Medicine, International Health Forum, Video Tagged With: dr mobula, emergencies, humanitarian, linda mobula, mobula, NCD, NCDs, non communicable, non-communicable disease, treatment

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