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My name is Kayla Enriquez.

I'm trained in emergency medicine.
I trained in the West Coast and then have a passion for
Global Health and International Medicine.
So, I completed a fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in
International Medicine, and I've worked in the Global Health Field prior to
doing a residency in EM in med school, did to Global Health Track.
Traveled a lot.
Did some medical missions and then kind of continued on until now doing the same.
And currently have a project in Liberia working on Ebola and
in the acute emergency response as well as the kind of post humanitarian crisis,
systems development, and sustainable systems.
Currently I have a project in Liberia.
As you're aware, there was a huge Ebola epidemic in West Africa that began in 2014
that really was unexpected, and kind of hit the world by surprise.
And with some colleagues of mine, had an interest in Liberia, specifically,
because they had been working in medical education for several years.
And when this happened, really said, how can we help?
And so that began in 2014.
I was funded by the Paul Allen Foundation.
With some colleagues of mine doing infection prevention and control.
Working with the World Health Organization, Ministry of Health in
Liberia, as well as various other Non Governmental Organizations.
And have continued on doing that,
supplying personal protective equipment to hospitals to keep healthcare workers
safe.
And then now also do an emergency care clinical curriculum portion to all
clinicians there.
Because we figured if we're hitting all clinicians in all hospitals,
why not also use this as a platform to develop their clinical skills and
their knowledge and actually help improve the healthcare workforce altogether?
So that's what my work entails currently.
>> I'm Dave Polatty.
I'm a civilian Associate Professor at the US Naval War College in Newport,
Rhode Island where I teach Operational and Strategic Planning.
I've also served for 23 years in the US Navy.
I had an 11 year career on active duty serving as both a Surface Warfare Officer,
driving ships for the Navy, and then as an Naval flight officer flying the P3
Orion.
And I've spent the last 12 years as a Navy reservist, so serving part time,
a month or two a year in a number of commands both in the Far East, South and
Central America, and in Europe.
My interest in humanitarian work stems from
my first real contact with it back in 1998.
Hurricane Mitch, Category 5 hurricane,
hit Honduras while I was forward deployed down to Panama for a six month period.
My air crew was one the first air crews to show up on scene to conduct an
assessment
from the air of how bad the damage was.
And from that moment in time, kind of a pivotal moment for me, I've always had
an interest in figuring out the best intersection of military integration and
to helping the international humanitarian community
when militaries are called upon to respond.
>> My name is Nahuel Arenas, I'm the Humanitarian Director of Oxfam America.
I started working in this field around 15 or
more years ago, working in slums in South America.
I'm originally from Argentina.
I worked in a what we would say developmental work in my country for
many years.
I worked volunteer in Asia for some years.
I worked for the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
I would say for over the last ten years,
my work has focused on humanitarian crisis.
I spent about five years working in Africa and living in different countries and
working for organizations like Action Contre le Faim and Oxfam.
In Oxfam I had the opportunity to occupy most of the management
positions in the organization, from being a manager of for
response to being a Humanitarian Coordinator on National Level,
Country Director, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator,
Deputy Director, now Director.
So that gave me the possibility to understand what the different
people in those different layers have to deal with.
And that really helped me in my current work.
>> My name is Parveen Parmar,
I'm the Director of Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California.
I've worked in humanitarian response in several locations.
In Pakistan, I've supported work, in Eastern Myanmar, working with ethnic
health organizations that provide aid to populations affected by conflict and
by natural disaster.
I've also supported work in Cameron with refugees from
the Central African Republic, and
I'm currently working to support access to healthcare pursuing refugees in Jordan.