Health Security Workshop Series

The Health Security Workshop Series explores current health challenges to security in the NESA region, including how improving health care assistance and capacity of regional governments can weaken and undermine support for terrorist groups in states with developing infrastructure.

Participants’ responsibilities should include, but not be limited to, developing and overseeing policy dealing with strategic health and national security issues of concern to both the United States and the NESA region. Regional participants in similar and complementary fields will participate, as will United States Government civilian officials and military officers, members of non-governmental organizations and specialists in health diplomacy, medical anthropology, and transnational security threats.

In March 2007, the NESA Center hosted a two-day pilot workshop on “Health and National Security in the NESA Region.” Regarding the linkage between health security and regional security, participants concluded that health assistance has a strong potential to augment efforts to bring stability to the region, fight terrorism and increase governmental legitimacy, and that regional officials could be made more aware of these types of links in order to better appreciate and act upon their beneficial aspects.

Fifty civilian and military officials in health-related positions from the U.S., Jordan, Turkey, and the Palestinian Authority attended the most recent workshop, hosted by the NESA Center, the Jordanian Armed Forces Royal Medical Services and U.S. Central Command, in Amman, Jordan.

For a schedule and information about how to register, click here.

You can visit the NESA Center's Health Security Web Site here.