Nepal Earthquake Summit
The 2016 Leila and Melville Straus 1960 Family Symposium will focus on the response to the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
041 HALDEMAN CENTER
11:00-11:15am, "Welcome"
11:15am-12:15pm, "Narrating Disaster: Preliminary Findings from NSF RAPID Research"
Panelists:
Sienna Craig, Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Dartmouth
Geoff Childs, Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis
Kristine Hildebrandt, Associate Professor of English Language & Literature at Southern Illinois University
Discussant:
B.P. Giri, Visiting Professor of English at Kathmandu University
12:30-1:45pm, "Social Media and Social Entrepreneurship in Response to the Earthquakes"
Panelists:
Austin Lord (Dartmouth Class of 2006), Anthropologist and Visual Ethnographer, Cornell University, Yale Himalaya Initiative
Max von Hippel (Dartmouth Class of 2019)
Ravi Kumar, CodeforNepal.org
Discussant:
Lorie Loeb, Executive Director of the DALI Lab at Dartmouth
2:00-3:45pm, "Public Health Response to the Earthquakes"
Panelists:
Shreya Shrestha, Student at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Co-Founder of Aasha for Nepal
Bijay Acharya, Massachusetts General Hospital
Daniel Albert, Professor of Medicine, of Pediatrics and of The Dartmouth Institute Section Chief, Rheumatology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Co-Founder of Aasha for Nepal
SP Kalaunee, Director of Governance and Partnerships, Possible Health, Nepal
Ian Speers (Dartmouth Class of 2017), Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health (DCGH)
Discussant:
John Butterly, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
