vОсталось всего несколько мест! ЗАРЕГИСТРИРУЙТЕСЬ СЕГОДНЯ на наш курс по медиации, имеющий международную аккредитацию.

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Katie Wierenga

Public Health Practitioner

Соединенные Штаты Америки

Katie Wierenga is a public health practitioner with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of health systems and conflict. She has worked extensively in Karen State, Myanmar, focusing on healthcare delivery in remote and under-resourced areas. Her roles have included coordinating medical supply chains, leading community health initiatives focused on WASH and childhood vaccines, and training local healthcare providers. From 2021 to 2023, she served as a consultant with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, advising on public health strategy and humanitarian access during Myanmar’s ongoing civil conflict. Katie holds a Master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University with a certificate in International Health. Currently she is completing Master’s degree in Physician Assistant Studies at Duke University. She is focusing on emergency medicine and ultrasound, skills she hopes to apply to her continued work in low-resource settings.
Starts 27 Май 2025
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In regions affected by armed conflict, the connection between violence and poor health outcomes is often discussed. Yet while many stakeholders recognize the urgency of addressing healthcare needs in these settings, the full complexity of those needs—and how to respond effectively—is often less understood.

In this webinar, we’ll explore the intersection of health and conflict through the lens of firsthand experience working in the rural health system in Karen State, Myanmar. Using stakeholder mapping as a guiding tool, we’ll examine the practical challenges of delivering healthcare in one of the most remote and under-resourced areas of the world. In such settings, trust and coordination aren’t just helpful—they are essential to expanding access and ensuring the safety and well-being of civilian populations.

Participants will gain insight into the day-to-day realities of health system development in conflict zones, including logistical constraints, political sensitivities, and the complexities of working across cultural and organizational boundaries. The session will also offer frameworks for thinking about health as a stabilizing force in fragile settings, and how these lessons might inform work in other complex environments.

Вкладчики IM Campus

флаг Литвы
Литва
Мигле - юрист и действующий сертифицированный государством медиатор. Она также является научным экспертом по медиации, сосредоточившись на сравнительных аспектах законов о медиации во многих европейских юрисдикциях во время своего докторского исследования и работы в Рабочей группе CEPEJ по медиации.
флаг израиля
Израиль
Ран является доцентом кафедры разрешения споров (экспертный трек) в Хайфском университете, где он преподает в международной программе аспирантуры по изучению проблем мира и управления конфликтами.
флаг Соединенного Королевства
Великобритания
Профессор Феаргал Кокрейн родился и получил образование в Белфасте и на протяжении 30 лет занимается публикациями и преподаванием по Северной Ирландии и более широким темам насильственных политических конфликтов и миростроительства.
флаг Китая
Китай
Вод К. С. Чан является постоянным членом Палаты Ронни Вонга С. К., барристером, международным арбитром и посредником, практикующим в Специальном административном районе Гонконг (HK).
флаг Соединенного Королевства
Великобритания
Ian joined the British Army in 1980 and spent 37 years in uniform, retiring in 2017. He spent most of his service in the Brigade of Gurkhas, including Commanding a Gurkha Infantry Battalion, as well as in operational staff roles at every level of Command, National, Coalition and Multinational. He has served on operations on the Hong Kong-Sino Border, the Falkland Islands (post-conflict), Northern Ireland, Belize, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq.

He was the Regional Security Sector Advisor for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue Asia Regional Office and Myanmar Team from 10 July 2017 to 1st April 2022 working on the Myanmar Peace Process, engaging with multiple actors. He then became the Regional Advisor for HD Asia-Pacific, coordinating, mediating and facilitating specific projects on Humanitarian access and human security (particularly Myanmar), but also supporting HD’s wider efforts in South East Asia, including Thailand, Bangladesh and the Philippines, as well as providing security sector advice to HD’s team globally as required. He has taught mediation and negotiation and facilitated multiple dialogues during the last 7 years plus to many conflict parties throughout South East Asia and further afield, with another 15 years negotiation and mediation practical and teaching experience in the UK Armed Forces prior to that.

He holds Master’s Degrees in Defence Studies from King’s College, London (1995), and Strategic Studies from the US Army War College (2008). He is a member, facilitator and mentor for the Centre of Competence for Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN), which is based in Geneva. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.