*[image: Description: HCDE logo] [image: Purple gold logo 75]***** *Disaster Response and Development: Worlds Apart?***** Speaker: Roy Williams *Tuesday**, December 4, 5:30 - 6:30pm* *Foege Auditorium, S-060 * *Genome Sciences Bldg * 3720 15th Avenue NE.**** Roy Williams, former director of USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), will speak on today's need for aid and development workers and planners to look at the underlying assumptions governing how we think and operate our programs. What used to be referred to as the transition between the two areas of development and relief is increasingly thought of as more a matter of recognizing areas of overlap. We see examples of this in Haiti and Afghanistan where rebuilding is now a national priority following on the considerable attention paid to relief and short-term reconstruction. The talk will include a facilitated Q+A to address implications of a changing operational context for implementation of GH programs and program design to meet these realities. **** *About the Speaker: **Roy Williams* was appointed as OFDA Director from 1998-2001. He also served 12 years with International Rescue Committee (IRC) including roles as VP for Overseas Policy and Planning, VP Overseas Programs, and Director of Operations; 6 years in developing countries with IOM; and is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Humanitarian Cooperation, an organization focused on achieving coordination in humanitarian work through enhanced cooperation. Mr. Williams also serves as an adjunct professor with Colombia University. **** Link to his website:**** http://www.cooperationcenter.org/about.html**** _______________________________________________ Globalhealth mailing list Globalhealth@u.washington.edu http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/globalhealth
