缅北强奸

kirsten.johnson [at] mcgill.ca (Kirsten Johnson, MD, MPH)

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine

In 2011 Dr Johnson was selected as one of the 鈥溾�� to honour her for her outstanding achievements by Caldwell Partners International.

Research Interests: Dr. Johnson is an attending staff in the Emergency Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and is faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at 缅北强奸. She is affiliated faculty at the Institute for Health and Social Policy at 缅北强奸 and at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University in Boston. Dr. Johnson is Co-Director of the Humanitarian Studies Initiative for Residents at 缅北强奸: a program designed to train medical residents as professionals in humanitarian response. She is also on the Steering Committee of the Child Soldiers Initiative. Dr. Johnson received her MD from the University of Calgary and specialized in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at 缅北强奸. She obtained her Masters in Public Health and a diploma in Humanitarian Studies from Harvard University and a diploma in Tropical Medicine from Cayetano Heredia University in Peru.

Dr. Johnson is one of the leaders in humanitarian professionalization, working on the development and application of competencies for training, education and certification for humanitarian responders globally. In 2012 she received an award from Canada Grand Challenges as one of Canada鈥檚 Rising Stars in Global Health to advance humanitarian training and certification using e-Learning accessible on mobile devices.

Dr. Johnson鈥檚 research has focused on genocide, child combatants, sexual gender-based violence and conflict-related mental health and psychosocial support. She has conducted population-based studies to quantify and characterize the conflict-related sexual violence and health outcomes in Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Kenya. Two of these studies have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Her work in the DRC has been presented at over 27 high level meetings including the US Department of Defence, Africa Command (AFRICOM), USAID, the United Nations, Provincial Ministries of Health in the DRC, the International Criminal Court and many humanitarian NGOs. This study has been used to obtain $24 million in funding from USAID to target gaps in sexual violence programming in DRC. It also directed the creation of the United States S. 891 (111th): Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009 111th Congress, 2009鈥�2010. 聽Dr. Johnson鈥檚 current research is focused on preventing sexual violence amongst the Inuit population of Canada鈥檚 four Northern regions.

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Keywords: Humanitarian Education and Training, Humanitarian Competencies and Professionalization, Sexual Gender-Based Violence, Child Combatants, Conflict, Genocide, Human Rights, Mental Health, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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