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For over fifty years, Colombia has been embroiled in conflict, displacing nearly seven million people, second only to Syria for the highest...
The Signal Code: A Human Rights Approach to Information During Crisis
Visit the Signal Code Minisite
The Signal Code is the result of a six month study by the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to...
Negotiation with Non-State Armed Groups at the Frontlines
In many of today’s frontline humanitarian environments, access is increasingly difficult to obtain and maintain, and continued engagement with non-state armed actors is an integral aspect of ensuring assistance and protection activities and advocating for compliance with international legal...
Data preparedness: connecting data, decision making and humanitarian response
Signal Program Standards and Ethics Series - Issue 1
Data are a central component of humanitarian response. Frequently, however, there is a disconnect between data, decision-making and response. Informed decisions need to be made in the first hours and days of an emergency, and if the...
The KoBoToolbox Question Library enables users to create, store, share and re-use validated questions across surveys. This speeds up the process of creating new forms and contributes to the standardization of survey questions.
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Humanitarian Needs Assessment Training
The Humanitarian Needs Assessment E-learning program is designed to provide an overview of the Humanitarian Needs Assessment process. The process can look very different depending on the scale of a disaster, the role of humanitarian organizations involved and the resources available to any...
Building a Better Response
The Building a Better Response e-learning course provides users with a comprehensive and practical introduction to engaging with the international humanitarian architecture. The e-learning component is publicly accessible free of charge.
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Timothy B. Erickson |
Dr. Timothy B. Erickson is a new HHI Core Faculty member with expertise in environmental toxicology and crisis in climate change. He also has active humanitarian health projects in conflict regions of Ukraine and Syria. Dr. Erickson is an emergency medicine physician at the Brigham and... |
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Parveen Parmar |
Dr. Parmar’s research has focused on the study of health and human rights violations in refugees and internally displaced populations. She conducted a study on sexual violence among refugees and host populations in Eastern Cameroon in collaboration with International... |
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Michael D. Lappi |
Dr Lappi has extensive national and international experience in the fields of humanitarian assistance and disaster response having served in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the United States. Most notably, he provided critical leadership to the... |
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David Phillips | |||
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Karen AbuZayd |
Karen AbuZayd is currently a Commissioner for the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria, mandated by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011. Previously, she served as Commissioner-General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine... |
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Researching Gender in Fragile States: Lessons from Central Africa |
The concentrations on Women, Gender and Health; and Humanitarian Studies, Ethics and Human Rights present a Conversation with Jocelyn Kelly, focusing on her work researching gender in fragiles states. Jocelyn Kelly is the director for Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI) Women in... |
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| Trump Administration’s Immigration and Refugee Order Betrays Humanitarian Values and American Security |
The Trump administration’s executive order temporarily banning travel to the United States by immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries – Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – is not only cruel and misguided, but will do nothing to... |
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Monitoring and Evaluation for Humanitarian Programs Workshop |
Join Professional Education Students from around the world for an introduction to monitoring and evaluation research for humanitarian programs. This course will provide an overview of the basic principles and methodologies for program monitoring and evaluation with an emmphasis on practical... |
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Yousef Alawad | |||
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Caitlin Howarth |
Caitlin Howarth is a Researcher on early warning systems at the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). Howarth was formerly Reports Manager for the Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI from 2011-2012. She has served as Director of... |
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Health in Humanitarian Crises | Link |
