Dr. Paul B. Spiegel

Paul B. Spiegel, MD, MPH, is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

A Canadian physician and epidemiologist with over 30 years of experience in humanitarian health, he chairs the CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement, whose report, Health in a World of Crises and Impunity, was published in The Lancet in May 2026.

He previously served as Chief of Public Health at UNHCR and has authored over 200 publications on humanitarian health, migration, and human rights. He also co-chairs Lancet Migration.