According to UN estimates, over 122 million people are displaced due to conflict, persecution, and climate change. Many more remain unaccounted for and are broadly categorized as migrants or stateless persons. These communities face complex healthcare challenges owing to changing and unstable environments and new diseases. Professor Zaman will discuss the role technology and basic science in improving their healthcare access, along with the ethical challenges these approaches present. 

Muhammad Zaman is the HHMI Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. He is the author of We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), four other books, and over 130 peer-reviewed research articles on innovation, refugee health, and global health. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 for his work on antibiotic resistance in refugee camps and was previously a postdoctoral fellow in cancer research at MIT.

Lunch will be available at 11:45am. Please RSVP here.

Contact Kate Danahy at kdanahy@mit.edu with any questions. 

This event is part of the CIS Global Research & Policy Seminar Series. Join our mailing list here to learn about upcoming seminars in the series.