Local author program with Dr. Muhammad Zaman to discuss his book We Wait For A Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced.

With over a 110 million people forced to leave their homes due to conflict, persecution, climate change and economic collapse, forced displacement is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Refugees, people displaced from their homes within their own countries and stateless communities face acute challenges - including accessing healthcare. This book, written in an accessible language for a broad audience, focuses on communities in three distinct parts of the world, South Sudan, Venezuela and Pakistan, shares moving stories of individuals and care givers in these places, and in doing so helps us think of our individual and collective responsibility in protecting the most vulnerable.

Sharon resident Muhammad Hamid Zaman is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is also the inaugural director of Center on Forced Displacement, a university wide center at BU, that supports new ideas, technologies, scholarship, awareness, and solution identification that will improve the human condition of vulnerable persons, in all parts of the world, who are forced to leave their homes. Dr. Zaman has written 5 books and over 175 publications, Professor Zaman has written extensively on innovation, refugee well-being and global health in newspapers around the world. His newspaper columns have appeared in over 30 countries and have been translated into eight languages.