Vincenzo Bollettino, PhD
Director of Programs & Administration
Dr. Bollettino comes to HHI from the Program on Humanitarian Policy & Conflict Research at the Harvard School of Public Health, with a background in the field of human security and conflict management from years of consultations with agencies including Save the Children, World Vision, the EuropeanUnion Joint Research Center, and UNICEF. He has managed several large training and policy development initiatives related to international humanitarian law, responsibility to protect, and peacebuilding operations and has designed several reporting systems and program evaluations for field security measures in complex emergencies. Dr. Bollettino has authored several publications related to disaster management and humanitarian assistance and has taught many courses as an Instructor at the Harvard Extension School on social science research and world politics. He holds a doctorate in International Politics and Political Theory from University of Denver and has held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University in the Program on Non-violent Sanctions and Cultural Survival.
Hilarie Cranmer, MD, MPH
Director of Education Initiatives
Dr. Cranmer oversees the curriculum development and implementation of HHI's Humanitarian Studies in the Field program. She is a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and faculty in the Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Cranmer served as a health officer in Banda Aceh, Indonesia with the International Rescue Committee during the acute phase of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and also assisted the American Red Cross in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the immediate aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Dr. Cranmer has also served as a medical officer at Embangweni Hospital in Malawi and as a field officer with Physicians for Human Rights in post-war Kosovo, conducting human rights research and teaching ultrasonography and trauma management. Initially trained in biomedical engineering, she is a graduate of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, completed an emergency medicine residency at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and was the first fellow in the International Emergency Medicine and Health program at Brigham & Women's Hospital, a fellowship program that she now leads as Associate Director.
Margeaux Fischer
Faculty Assistant
Prior to joining HHI in July 2009, Ms. Fischer interned with Physicians for Human Rights in Cambridge, the Permanent Representative of the National Assembly of Slovenia to the European Parliament, a Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, and the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance. Ms. Fischer is also a Refugee Family Mentor for the International Rescue Committee and an ESOL tutor at the International Institute of Boston. She holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in International Affairs from Northeastern University.
P. Gregg Greenough, MD, MPH
Director of Research
Dr. Greenough has worked extensively in applying epidemiologic methods to public health problems within conflict- and disaster-affected populations. After graduating from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (1989), he completed a residency and fellowship in Emergency Medicine at UCLA (1997) and earned an MPH at Johns Hopkins University (1998). He held joint faculty positions in Emergency Medicine and International Health at Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health while working at the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response there. Dr. Greenough has worked in relief operations in the Balkans, Central America, Africa, the US, and the Palestinian Territories and has researched disaster preparedness in Tanzania; protracted refugee health in Kenya, Tanzania, and Colombia; the burden of disease in the Hurricane Katrina displaced population; the effects of landmines on human security in Angola; and has directed two national nutrition and food security studies and an emergency medicine development project in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. As Research Director of HHI, Dr. Greenough provides senior leadership in establishing the Initiative's research agenda, designing and implementing field studies, supervising the analysis of data, interpreting data to relevant humanitarian stakeholders and the academic world, and mentoring the next generation of humanitarian health workers. He is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and continues to practice emergency medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital as an attending physician and faculty member of Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Jocelyn Kelly, MS
Gender-Based Violence Research Coordinator
Jocelyn Kelly, MS is the GBV Research Coordinator for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) where she designs and implements research projects based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to examine the experiences and attitudes of community groups regarding sexual violence. She has been conducting health-related research using both qualitative and quantitative research methods for over seven years both in national and international settings, including Mexico and Africa. After graduating with full and departmental honors from Johns Hopkins University, Ms. Kelly worked as a journalist in Mexico where she also helped conduct public health interventions in remote, indigenous areas. Prior to joining HHI, Ms. Kelly worked as an Emergency Management Specialist in Hurricane Katrina-affected areas and acted as a liaison to the FEMA Public Assistance Chief in Louisiana. Ms. Kelly's international work has focused on understanding the health needs of vulnerable populations in Eastern and Central Africa and has included working with Uganda Human Rights commission to launch the first office in Africa promoting the Right to Health.