UN Responsibility for the Cholera Epidemic in Haiti: 
What happened? And how can it be fixed?

Thursday, September 1, 2016, 12:00 - 1:00pm

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Room 33-105 Center for Health Sciences
650 Charles E Young Drive South
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking information is provided when you RSVP.


The United Nations at its mid-September 2016 General Assembly meeting will address the Haiti cholera outbreak. UN peacekeeping soldiers coming from Nepal brought cholera to Haiti when they arrived in October 2010 for a six-month tour. Since this time, cholera has taken more than 9,000 lives. 

But what about the source? Epidemiologists typically look for the source when they investigate disease outbreaks, using this information to recommend policy or procedural changes to prevent future outbreaks. The Haitian government turned in November 2010 to French epidemiologist Dr. Renaud Piarroux, who proceeded during a three-week field investigation to unravel what had occurred. In the years that followed, he and his colleagues conducted research studies in Haiti and devised an intervention strategy for eliminating cholera. The presentation will address the most recent developments.

Ralph R. Frerichs, DVM, DrPH
Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology,
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

Author, Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up
in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Renaud Piarroux, MD, PhD
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Université d'Aix-Marseille;
Chief of Service, Laboratory of Parasitology and Mycology,
La Timone Academic Hospital

Dr. Piarroux is the French epidemiologist commissioned by the Haitian government to investigate the Haiti cholera epidemic.

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Sponsor(s): UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health