{"63869":{"#nid":"63869","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Humanitarian Disaster Relief","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nLunch and Lecture with Mark S. Ward (U.S. Agency for International Development) discussing, \u0022Humanitarian Disaster Relief: Capacity, Challenges and Opportunities for Technological Innovation\u0022.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E**View \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/events\/summaries\/MarkSWardReport.pdf\u0022\u003EEvent Summary\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/coursecast.sph.emory.edu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer\/Default.aspx?id=ac4d50b9-8e6f-4b9d-95d4-52984082772e\u0022\u003EVideo Footage\u003C\/a\u003E from similar event.\u003C\/strong\u003E  \u003Cem\u003EThanks to Emory University School of Public Health for sharing their footage of Mr. Ward.\u003C\/em\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMark Ward is Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and through January 2011, was Acting Director of USAID\u0027s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMark S. Ward has directed the U.S. government international disaster assistance responses from Pakistan floods to cholera in Haiti. This position naturally calls for significant coordination across the full range of interagency actors, including CDC, the Department of Defense and its combatant commands, the Department of State and FEMA. He has considerable experience on development and humanitarian assistance in areas where a lack of security is a factor, and can speak to a range of approaches, including technological innovation, to expand the capacity and effectiveness of humanitarian disaster relief.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMr. Ward joined the Foreign Service in 1986 and has served in Pakistan, Egypt, the Philippines, and Russia. Past positions include Special Advisor on Development to the head of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Acting Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Asia at USAID, USAID Mission Director in Pakistan, and most recently Acting Director of USAID\u0027s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMr. Ward is a native of San Francisco, and received his Bachelor of Arts in political science and Juris Doctor from the University of California at Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELunch and Lecture with Mark S. Ward (U.S. Agency for International Development) discussing, \u0022Humanitarian Disaster Relief: Capacity, Challenges and Opportunities for Technological Innovation\u0022.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Capacity, Challenges and Opportunities for Technological Innovation"}],"uid":"27184","created_gmt":"2011-01-25 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:53:56","author":"Jene Gladstone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-02-03T11:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-02-03T13:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-02-03T13:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-02-03 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-02-03 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-02-03 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/flyers\/Ward Flyer at Georgia Tech.pdf","title":"See Flyer"},{"url":"http:\/\/coursecast.sph.emory.edu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer\/Default.aspx?id=ac4d50b9-8e6f-4b9d-95d4-52984082772e","title":"Video Footage of similar event"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cistp.gatech.edu\/events\/summaries\/MarkSWardReport.pdf","title":"Event Summary"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"795","name":"CISTP"},{"id":"11745","name":"disaster relief"},{"id":"8039","name":"Humanitarian"},{"id":"999","name":"IAC"},{"id":"851","name":"INTA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAngela Levin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECISTP\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=al101\u0022\u003EContact Angela Levin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3199\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}