BIOGRAPHY - CURRICULUM VITAE
dr Slobodan Lang
| 1. Personal : - born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1945 - married to wife Nada, a physician - two children: Maroje and Maja 2. Political : - advisor to the President of the Republic for humanitarian issues - deputy in the Chamber of Counties of the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia - ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia - head of the Croatian delegation to the Interparliamentary Union - member of the Council of Europe 3. Academic : - assistant professor of the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb at the School of National Health - guest professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Mostar - guest professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (until 1996) - associate of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (1993) - member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the
Royal Colleges of Physicians - member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Health and Human Rights, Harvard - member of the Editorial Board of the Croatian Medical Journal - president of the Croatian Network of Healthy Cities - president of the “Health for All” summer school in Dubrovnik |
Experience in Crisis Situations
Before the war:
- the struggle against AIDS
- care for and realizing the rights of the disabled
- environmental protection
- better quality of life for cancer patients
- establishment of the Healthy Cities movement
- healthcare management
Humanitarian experience under crisis conditions:
- assistance to Albanian miners during their underground hunger strike in 1989
- attempts to prevent the outbreak of conflict and the protection endangered persons among Serbian groups in Croatia in 1990 (Knin, Vojnić)
- attempts to protect endangered Croatian groups in 1991 (Potkonje, Dalj)
- request for the cessation of court martials (Zagreb)
- the organization of a mass protest against antisemitism in 1991 (Zagreb)
- organization of the “Libertas” convoy for Dubrovnik and comprehensive civilian support during the siege of Dubrovnik in 1991
- assistance to a network of healthcare institutions during the war, since 1991
- reception of displaced Bosniaks and Croats from eastern Bosnia and the Bosnian Posavina region in 1992
- assessment of the destruction of cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina (the first use of the term “urbicide”--the murder of cities) in 1992
- assistance and protection to Bosniaks and Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992 and 1993 (displaced persons, detainees and local populations)
- proposal of the concept of Peace Hospitals (Mostar Hospital, Kosevo Hospital in Sarajevo), 1993
- the organization of a humantarian convoy for assistance to Croats and Bosniaks in Bosnia-Herzegovia (“The White Way,” the Peace and Love Convoy, etc.), 1993 and 1994
- support to the Jews in Zenica, Mostar, Sarajevo and Tuzla, 1992-1995
- assistance to endangered Croatian groups in Bosnia-Herzegovina, since 1992
- launching of initiatives and monitoring the construction of the Croatian hospital in Nova Bila, since 1994
- support to the peaceful blockade staged by Croatian displaced persons, 1994
- support to the residents of Tuzla after the massacre in 1995
- attempts to prevent the genocide in Srebrenica in 1995
- depature for Banja Luka to ensure the humanitarian protection of endangered populations, 1995
- care for elderly and abandoned Serbian populations after “Operation Storm” in 1995
- care for refugee Bosniaks in Kuplensko and the organization of returns to Kladuša in 1995 and 1996
- international work through political, public, professional and media activity with the goal of preventing and halting wars and assistance to endangered people, 1989-1997
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