A webinar followed by a discussion around the impact of conflict on children around the world. This is the first of a series looking at the effects conflict and war can have on children in the short- and the long-term.
Speaker: Ayesha Kadir
Bio: Ayesha Kadir is a paediatrician and Senior Humanitarian Health Advisor for Save the Children. She works in clinical care, public health research, health policy, and advocacy. Her clinical work is in paediatric emergency medicine and social paediatrics in Europe and in humanitarian settings. Her research, advocacy and policy work focuses on the effects of migration, armed conflict, and other forms of violence on children and families, and in finding effective ways to protect and promote children's and families' health, wellbeing, and rights. Dr. Kadir has worked in east, west, and southern Africa, the Middle East, Haiti, western and eastern Europe, and the United States. She has worked with international NGOs, universities, governments and the World Health Organization before starting her current role with Save the Children.