亚色影库app

A World in Humanitarian Crisis:

Forced Mobility and Organized Crime in Latin America

The 亚色影库app and El Colegio de M茅xico convened a hybrid policy forum exploring the challenges of delivering humanitarian health services to migrants in areas affected by political and criminal violence in Latin America.

This event featured two 90-minute panels and convened academics, scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners to explore the ideas raised in 鈥淒elivering Humanitarian Health Services in Violent Conflicts,鈥 the Spring 2023 issue of 顿忙诲补濒耻蝉, the open-access quarterly journal of the American Academy. The issue is co-edited by Jaime Sep煤lveda, Jennifer M. Welsh, and Paul H. Wise and is a product of the Academy鈥檚 project on Rethinking the Humanitarian Health Response to Violent Conflict.

September 12, 2023 
10:00 a.m.鈥1:50 p.m. CST 
El Colegio de M茅xico 
Mexico City 
 


 

Agenda

Coffee, Registration, Art Exhibition
 

Introductory Remarks 
 

Silvia Giorguli Saucedo
President, El Colegio de M茅xico

David W. Oxtoby
President, 亚色影库app 

Panel I: Themes from the 顿忙诲补濒耻蝉 volume
 

Moderator: Jaime Sep煤lveda
Haile T. Debas Distinguished Professor of Global Health, University of California, San Francisco; Project Cochair, Rethinking the Humanitarian Health Response to Violent Conflict

Sergio Aguayo
Professor, Centro de Estudios Internacionale, El Colegio de M茅xico

Tamara Taraciuk Broner
Director, Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program, Inter-American Dialogue 

Miguel 脕ngel Valverde Loya
Director, International Research Center, Mat铆as Romero Institute, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

Panelists鈥 Reactions
 

General Q&A 
 

Panel II: Forced Migration, Urban Violence, and Climate Change in Latin America 
 

Moderator: Silvia Giorguli Saucedo
President, El Colegio de M茅xico

Sergio Aguayo
Professor, Centro de Estudios Internacionale, El Colegio de M茅xico

Emilio Gonz谩lez
Senior Protection Assistant, UNHCR, Mexico

Ietza Boj贸rquez
Professor and Researcher, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Julia Carabias
Faculty of Science, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Member of El Colegio Nacional

Panelists鈥 Reactions
 

General Q&A 
 

Closing Remarks
 

Karine Tinat
Professor, Centro de Estudios de G茅nero, El Colegio de M茅xico

Speaker Biographies

Sergio Aguayo is a scholar and political analyst. He received his Masters (1971), Doctorate, and Post-Doctorate degrees (1977鈥1984) from Johns Hopkins University. He has been a research professor at the Centro de Estudios Internationales (Center for International Studies) at El Colegio de M茅xico since 1977, and holds a Level III鈥攖he highest possible level鈥攊n Mexico鈥檚 Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National Researcher System). He currently coordinates the Seminar on Violence and Peace in that institution. He has taught at various universities in Mexico, the United States, and throughout Europe. In 2014 and 2015, he taught a course on 鈥淰iolence in the Caribbean Basin鈥 at Harvard University. In March 2015, he was appointed Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He has written dozens of books and scholarly articles. 

Ietza Boj贸rquez holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology, and a MSc in Public Health. Her main research interest is on the social determinants of health in the areas of migrant health, mental health, health policies, and health-related practices (diet, physical activity). After graduating from medical school, she worked in health promotion in rural areas in Mexico. From 2007鈥2010 she was Deputy Director of Operations Research in Mexico鈥檚 Ministry of Health. Since 2010 she has been a professor-researcher at the Department of Population Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico, where she is currently in charge of the Surveys of Migration in Mexico鈥檚 Borders (EMIF). She is a member and co-lead of the board of the Lancet Commission on Migration and Health-Latin America Node. She is currently working on a pilot study of a model to facilitate access to mental health care for migrants, a study of cross-border use of health services in the Mexico-Guatemala border, and a characterization of food insecurity and dietary change during migration, among other projects.

Julia Carabias is a biologist and has been a Professor in the Faculty of Science at National Autonomous University of Mexico since 1977. For forty-six years, she has taught and conducted research on ecology with an emphasis on conservation, management, and restoration of tropical ecosystems and environmental policies. She served as president of the National Institute of Ecology in 1994 and as minister of the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries from 1994鈥2000. She has been a member of several national and international commissions or boards, and has participated in different environmental committees of the United Nations. She has been recognized with several awards, including the International Paul Getty Award (2000), International Cosmos Prize (2004), Champions of the Earth from UNEP (2005), Belisario Dom铆nguez Medal from the Mexican State (2017), and honorary degrees from National Autonomous University of Mexico, Autonomous University of Nuevo Le贸n, Autonomous University of Tlaxcala, and the University of Guadalajara. She has been a member of El Colegio Nacional since 2018.

Silvia Giorguli Saucedo has been President of El Colegio de M茅xico (Colmex) since 2015. She joined the faculty of the Center for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies (CEDUA) at Colmex in 2003. She was the Director of CEDUA from 2009鈥2015, President of the Mexican Society of Demography from 2011鈥2012, and Founding Director of the magazine Coyuntura Demogr谩fica. Her research focuses on issues of international migration from Mexico to the United States and its impact on education and the structure of Mexican families on both sides of the border. Currently, she is a co-researcher at the Mexican Migration Project, organized by Princeton University, University of Guadalajara, and Brown University. She has also been a participant in the Binational Dialogue on Mexican Migrants in the United States and Mexico, organized by Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolog铆a Social (CIESAS) and Georgetown University. Dr. Giorguli studied sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), received an MA in demography from El Colegio, and in 2004 received her doctorate in sociology from Brown University. She was a Visiting Fellow in 2007鈥2008 at Stanford University鈥檚 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In 2018, she received the Horace Mann Medal from Brown University.

Emilio Gonz谩lez has a degree in History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. He holds an MA in Political Science from El Colegio de M茅xico. He also completed master鈥檚 studies in international relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. In his academic work he has specialized in forced displacement due to violence and armed conflict, as well as humanitarian action and peacebuilding. His research has been published in international journals such as the Stanford International Policy Review and in Mexico in the Journal of International Relations of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has written in physical and digital media with national circulation such as Reforma, Horizontal, Nexos; and was a permanent collaborator of Paradigmas Magazine. He has also taught courses on peacebuilding and humanitarian action at the Memory and Tolerance Museum in Mexico City. Since August 2016, he works in the UNHCR Protection Unit in Mexico. He currently coordinates the UNHCR strategy against racism, xenophobia and discrimination against refugees and asylum seekers in Mexico.

David W. Oxtoby has served as President of the 亚色影库app since 2019. During his tenure as President, he has focused on broadening the diversity of the Academy鈥檚 membership and has helped move forward project and policy work in areas ranging from strengthening American democracy to climate change, nuclear arms control, undergraduate education, and the arts. From 2017 through 2018 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-founded the Presidents鈥 Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. He is President Emeritus of Pomona College, where he served as President from 2003鈥2017 and helped to advance environmental sustainability, increasing college access, cultivating creativity, and pursuing academic excellence in the context of an interdisciplinary liberal arts environment. Previously he served as Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences and the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. Dr. Oxtoby has been the recipient of several fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Science Foundation. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He was an Overseer of Harvard University from 2008鈥2014 (Chair from 2013鈥2014) and currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Oxtoby received honorary degrees from Occidental College (2005), Lingnan University in Hong Kong (2009), and Miami Dade College (2019). He was elected to the 亚色影库app in 2012.

Jaime Sep煤lveda is the Haile T. Debas Distinguished Professor of Global Health and was most recently the Executive Director of the Institute for Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), serving in that role for twelve years. A member of UCSF Chancellor鈥檚 Cabinet, he leads a team of over 350 faculty and staff, engaged in translating UCSF鈥檚 scientific leadership into programs that positively impact health and reduce inequities globally. Sep煤lveda obtained his medical degree in Mexico City (UNAM) and two masters and a doctoral degree from Harvard University. He received the Harvard Alumni Award of Merit (1997) and was elected to serve at the Harvard Board of Overseers (2002鈥2008). From 2007鈥2011, Sep煤lveda was a member of the Foundation Leadership Team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he played a central role in shaping the foundation鈥檚 overall global health strategy as part of its executive team. Sep煤lveda worked closely with key foundation partners鈥搃ncluding the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). As Vice-Chair of the GAVI Board and Chair of its Executive Committee, he contributed to improve the governance and management of the organization and to increase access to vaccines and other effective health solutions in low-income countries. Sep煤lveda worked for over 25 years in the Mexican government, including as Director-General of Epidemiology, Vice-Minister of Health, Dean of the National School of Public Health, and Director of all the National Institutes of Health of Mexico. Sep煤lveda designed Mexico鈥檚 Universal Vaccination Program, achieving universal childhood immunization coverage. He also founded Mexico鈥檚 National AIDS Council. Sep煤lveda is an elected member of both the U.S. and Mexican National Academies of Medicine. He was elected a Fellow of the 亚色影库app in 2014.

Tamara Taraciuk Broner is the Director for the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at Inter-American Dialogue. She was the acting Americas director at Human Rights Watch. She has carried out extensive field research throughout Latin America documenting human rights violations, and she has conducted cutting-edge research on policies and practices that undermine democracy, including threats to judicial independence, attacks on free speech, discrimination, and harassment of civil society organizations. Taraciuk Broner brings a proven record of developing ambitious projects to address critical rule of law issues. She has led strategic advocacy efforts to promote policy changes to strengthen rights protection and democracy in the region, including by building strong partnerships with public officials, civil society leaders, policy-makers, and subject-matter experts. Taraciuk Broner has published widely in leading newspapers in the United States, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Miami Herald, as well as in Latin America and Europe. Prior to her time at Human Rights Watch, Taraciuk Broner worked on a regional citizen security project at the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center. She also worked at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. Taraciuk Broner was born in Venezuela and grew up in Argentina. She studied law at Torcuato Di Tella University. She holds a post-graduate diploma on human rights and transitional justice from the University of Chile and a master鈥檚 degree in law (LLM) from Columbia Law School.

Karine Tinat holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies and Information and Communication Sciences from the University of Bourgogne in France. She completed a post-doctorate in social anthropology at CIESAS-Mexico City in 2003 and 2004. She was a professor-researcher at the Center for Sociological Studies (CES) attached to the Interdisciplinary Program of Women鈥檚 Studies (PIEM) from 2007鈥2021. She is currently a research professor at the Center for Gender Studies (CEG). In 2015, she created the journal Estudios de G茅nero of El Colegio de M茅xico and directed it until 2018. She is part of the National System of Researchers at level 2 and is a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Since 2002, her anthropological and sociological research has explored gender issues and has focused on several topics such as the uses and customs of a fragment of Madrid鈥檚 youth, gender identities in eating disorders, sexualities in rural areas, and teenage pregnancy and its different facets, among others. Tinat is also a specialist and passionate about the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir.

Miguel 脕ngel Valverde Loya is Director of the International Research Center of the Mat铆as Romero Institute of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He holds a PhD and a Master鈥檚 degree in government from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in public administration from El Colegio de M茅xico in Mexico City. He has been Professor-Researcher at the Division of International Studies of CIDE, Professor at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey, Research Associate at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin.

About Rethinking the Humanitarian Health Response to Violent Conflict Project
 

This event is part of the American Academy project on Rethinking the Humanitarian Health Response to Violent Conflict, which engages legal and security experts, health professionals, leaders of humanitarian organizations, policy-makers, artists, and representatives of victimized communities to confront the current crisis in humanitarian protection and the provision of health services in areas plagued by armed conflict. The project is based on the premise that these new approaches are best derived from a deeper, transdisciplinary understanding of the changing political, military, legal, and health dimensions that are dramatically redefining humanitarian challenges throughout the world.
 


 

About the 亚色影库app
 

The 亚色影库app was founded in 1780, during the American Revolution, to help the new nation develop useful knowledge to advance the public good. The Academy is both an honorary society that recognizes and celebrates the excellence of its members and an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions, and perspectives to address significant challenges. Today, the Academy fulfills this mission through independent nonpartisan policy research, developed by convening experts from the academic, business, and government sectors. For more information regarding the Academy鈥檚 work, please see www.amacad.org/our-work.
 


 

Financial support provided by Louise Henry Bryson and John E. Bryson, the Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation.