Richard Garfield, RN, MS, MPH, DrPH is Professor of Nursing at Columbia University and Visiting Professor at Karolinska Institute in Sweden.  He was first director of the Health and Nutrition Tracking Service hosted by HAC/WHO in Geneva and is now a Special Advisor for the creation of the Global Health Center at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.  He combines qualitative perspective of community health promotion and the quantitative approaches of epidemiology to assess morbidity and mortality changes among civilian groups in humanitarian crises. He has assessed the impact of economic embargoes in Cuba, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan Iraq, and Liberia for national governments and UN organizations.  He visited Iraq frequently since 1996 to collaborate with UNICEF, WHO, the World Food Program, and the Iraqi Ministry of Health. He was a coauthor of the World Violence Report and the Independent Commission to Evaluate the Oil for Food Program (Volker Commission) and is currently the chair of the Collective Violence Group of the Global Burden of Disease project. He has assisted in carrying out household surveys on insecurity, violence, mortality, and recovery in Katrina-affected areas in the southern U.S., in post-war areas of southern Sudan, and in cyclone-affected Myanmar. 

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

Garfield R, Diaz J. Epidemiologic impact of invasion and post-invasion conflict on Iraq. BioScience Trends 2007 1(1): 10-15.

Garfield R. Measuring Humanitarian Emergencies. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness - 1(2): 110-116 2007.

Mock N, Garfield R. On improving the monitoring of humanitarian crises. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2007, 22(5):377-383.

Abramson D, Garfield R. On the Edge: A report of the Louisiana Child & Family Health Study. Children’s Health Fund: 2006. On the edge: children and families displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita face a looming medical and mental health crisis.

Executive summary available at: http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/files/marshall_plan.pdf.

Garfield R. Sudan Working Papers Number 2, February 2007
-Violence and victimization in South Sudan: Lakes State in the post-CPA period, and Sudan Issue Brief Number 1, September 2006
-Persistent threats: Widespread human insecurity in Lakes State, South Sudan, since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Small Arms Survey
Both at: http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/portal/spotlight/sudan/sudan.html

Garfield R. Epidemiology of War. Pp. 23-37. In Levy B, Sidel V. War and Public Health (Second Edition). New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.