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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2002. Demographic Assessment Techniques in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10482.
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Appendix

Workshop Agenda and Participants September 20-21, 2000

AGENDA

September 20

Welcome, Introductions, and Background to the Meeting

Holly Reed, National Research Council

Introduction to the National Academies

Faith Mitchell, National Research Council

Goals for the Workshop

Charles Keely, Georgetown University (Chair)

Presentation: Overview of Demographic Methods in Complex Emergencies

W. Courtland Robinson, Johns Hopkins University

Paul Spiegel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Presentation: Applied Methods—Cluster Sampling

Paul Spiegel, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Presentation: Human Rights Measurement Issues

Lynn Amowitz, Physicians for Human Rights

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2002. Demographic Assessment Techniques in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10482.
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Comments: Donna Brogan, Emory University

Discussion

Presentation: Applied Methods—Spatial Sampling

Vincent Brown, Epicentre/MSF

Comments – Recommendations and Alternative Methods

Denis Coulombier, Institut de Veille Sanitaire (National Institute for Public Health Surveillance), France

Presentation: Applied Methods—Qualitative Techniques

William Weiss, Johns Hopkins University

Comments: M. Giovanna Merli, University of Wisconsin

Discussion: Estimating Population Size and Structure

Working Groups: Estimating Rates

  • Group 1: Mortality/Sampling

  • Group 2: Mortality/Indirect Estimation Techniques

Presentations by Working Groups and Discussion

September 21

Review of previous day

Charles Keely, Georgetown University

Presentation: Applied Methods and Mortality Measurement

Les Roberts, Johns Hopkins University

Comments: Fritz Scheuren, The Urban Institute

Presentation: Methods for Measuring Mortality Due to Human Rights Abuses

Patrick Ball, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2002. Demographic Assessment Techniques in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10482.
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Comments: William Seltzer, Fordham University

Discussion

Working Groups: Estimating Rates

  • Group 1: Morbidity and Mortality of Human Rights Abuses as Related to Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

  • Group 2: Morbidity and Mortality in Complex Emergencies Related to Disease and Malnutrition

Presentations by Working Groups and Discussion

Discussion: Directions for Future Research

PARTICIPANTS

Presenters

CHARLES B. KEELY (Chair), Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University

LYNN AMOWITZ, Physicians for Human Rights, Boston, Massachusetts

PATRICK BALL, Science and Human Rights Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC

DONNA BROGAN, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

VINCENT BROWN, Epicentre, Médecins Sans Frontières, Paris

DENIS COULOMBIER, Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint-Maurice, France

M. GIOVANNA MERLI, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

LES ROBERTS, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

W. COURTLAND ROBINSON, Center for Refugee and Disaster Studies, Johns Hopkins University

FRITZ SCHEUREN, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC

WILLIAM SELTZER, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University

PAUL SPIEGEL, International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2002. Demographic Assessment Techniques in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10482.
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WILLIAM WEISS, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Other Participants

MAIRE CONNOLLY, Department of Emergency and Humanitarian Action, World Health Organization, Geneva

STACY GILBERT, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC

STEVE HANSCH, Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland

KRISTA HOUSE, Population Program, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York

BELA HOVY, Programme Coordination Section, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva

UNNI KARUNAKARA, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and Médecins Sans Frontières, Nairobi

JENNIFER LEANING, School of Public Health, Harvard University

STEPHEN LUBKEMANN, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University

MARY LUNGAHO, Catholic Relief Services, Baltimore, and LINKAGES Project, Washington, DC

FAITH MITCHELL, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Washington, DC

PETER SALAMA, International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

KAVITA SINGH, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

BARBARA BOYLE TORREY, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Washington, DC

RONALD WALDMAN, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

MARK WALKUP, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC

BRADLEY WOODRUFF, International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2002. Demographic Assessment Techniques in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10482.
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Workshop Staff

BARNEY COHEN, Director, Committee on Population

HOLLY REED, Program Officer, Committee on Population

BRIAN TOBACHNICK, Project Assistant, Committee on Population

ELIZABETH WALLACE, Senior Project Assistant, Committee on Population

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2002. Demographic Assessment Techniques in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10482.
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The Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration was established by the Committee on Population of the National Research Council in 1999. The roundtable is composed of experts from academia, government, philanthropy, and international organizations. The roundtable's purpose is to serve as an interdisciplinary, nonpartisan focal point for taking stock of what is known about demographic patterns in refugee situations, to apply this knowledge base to assist both policy makers and relief workers, and to stimulate new directions for innovation and scientific inquiry in this growing field of study.

The roundtable meets yearly and has also organized a series of workshops (held concurrently with roundtable meetings) on some of the specific aspects of the demography of refugee and refugee-like situations, including mortality patterns, demographic assessment techniques, and research ethics in complex humanitarian emergencies.
This report to the Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration is a summary of one such workshop, which was held on September 20-21, 2000, under the aupices of the Committee on Population. The purpose of this meeting was to address a basic problem faced by all humanitarian relief agencies in an emergency: how to count the numbers of displaced persons and assess their general well-being. Workshop participants examined different methods for estimating refugee populations and their mortality rates, whether mortality was due to disease and malnutrition or human rights abuses. Demographic Assessment Techniques in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Summary of a Workshop explores the applicability of various methods in different types of emergency settings, how to improve existing methodologies and develop new ones, and the difficulties encountered by personnel in the field, including security, logistics, and access to a population.
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