5:30pm-8:00pm on Wednesday 2 April
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Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St. Andrews Street, CB2 3AR
Film: Doctors Under Attack (55 mins) (working title), Basement Films
Attacks against healthcare (AAHC) in armed conflict are increasing globally reports the WHO/World Innovation Summit for Health 2024 report: Line of Fire. In a bid to harness urgent international, interdisciplinary action to counter this, its recommendations include calling for a Special Rapporteur on healthcare in armed conflict and the introduction of the teaching of relevant aspects of international humanitarian and human rights law in tertiary education healthcare curriculums. The report’s recommendations were developed at the International Health Systems Group, Department of Engineering, stemming from research by one its PhD students, Dr Saleyha Ahsan.
This Cambridge Festival event, hosted by CRASSH Healthcare in Conflict invites an expert panel to discuss these recommendations and other ideas and strategies related to the protection of healthcare in armed conflicts.
BAFTA and Emmy award winning film executive producer, and former Channel 4 News editor, Ben De Pear, has made a feature length documentary about AAHC, due for release in March 2025 with the working title Doctors Under Attack, which will be screened as part of the event. Ben was the executive producer for the Oscar nominated film, 'For Sama’.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A examining the subject matter of the film and discussing what urgently needs to happen to protect healthcare systems in armed conflict. What role can academia play? Part of the discussion will focus on the feasibility of the practical applications, of recommendations made in the WHO/WISH 2024 report ‘In the Line of Fire’.
Speakers:
• Ben De Pear (Executive Producer Basement Films).
• Professor Paul Hunt, University of Essex, Law School and former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health and Chief Human Rights Commissioner, New Zealand government
• Professor Nick Maynard, upper GI consultant surgeon, awarded Humanitarian Medal by King Charles for his teaching of medical students and conducting surgery in Gaza.
• Muhammed Alzebda, Gazan medical student and co-founder of NGO Children Not Numbers.
• Dr Iain Overton - Director of Action on Armed Violence, multi-award-winning investigative journalist, human rights campaigner and author.
Chair: Dr Saleyha Ahsan – CRASSH Healthcare in armed conflict
