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From Research to Policy Recommendations: Julia VanRooyen & PHR Visit the Hill

HHI Fellow, Dr. Julia VanRooyen briefed members of Congress on conditions in Darfur refugee camps. The brief followed the recent release of the Obama Administration's Sudan Policy Review. HHI and the Physicians for Human Rights released a report earlier this year on the subject titled: "Nowhere To Turn: Failure to Protect, Support and Assure Justice for Darfuri Women."

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Characterizing Violence in the DRC 

Read our latest report on violence's implications for the protection of women in the DRC.  

2009 Humanitarian Action Summit Report Released  

The report presents challenges to humanitarian response and policy recommendations.

 
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Armenian-Turkish Reconciliation: Routes Through Empowerment

Join HHI Monday, November 16th from 7-9PM in the Tsai Auditorium for this Inter-communal Violence and Reconciliation Project event.

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Charles Vidich

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Charles Vidich, MCP, MS

Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Visiting Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health
Manager, Environmental Compliance, U.S. Postal Service

Mr. Vidich is the manager of environmental compliance for the U.S. Postal Service in Connecticut. He holds an MCP from the Harvard School of Design and an MS in environmental health from the Harvard School of Public Health. During the last several years, Mr. Vidich has been actively involved in the U.S. Postal Service's biological defense program, and is the author of the USPS's national policy concerning anthrax sampling, and detection and decontamination procedures. His research at HSPH is focused primarily on the relationship between the various disease processes that prompted quarantine responses, and the public health policies for implementing medical and administrative directives.