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Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH

Director

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH is the founding director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), an interfaculty initiative at Harvard University dedicated to advancing evidence and professional development in humanitarian assistance. He has led complex...

Fakiha Ahmed, MA

Fakiha served as a Research Assistant for the Signal Program at HHI. Her research interests include applying race and gender theories as well as studying the long-term impact of colonisaton in the field with a commitment to considering the ethical...

Irini Albanti, DrPH, MPH, MA

Executive Director

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Dr. Irini Albanti is the Executive Director at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), a Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Lecturer of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical...

Geoffrey Anderson, M.D.

Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Geoffrey Anderson is a trauma surgeon at LA General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Southern California Medical School. He did his training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and LA County Hospital and has...

Jessica Angel

As a graduate research assistant for the Transitional Justice Program, Jessica helped evaluate the effectiveness of transitional justice policies such as prosecutions, truth commissions, and reparations. She also conducted literature reviews and draft...

Uche Anigbogu, MD

Clinical Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Uche Anigbogu, MD works as an attending Physician in the Emergency Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is fellow in global emergency medicine at the Brigham. She is also a fellow at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative working primarily with the...

Alyssa Ao

Fellow at the Forefront

Global Oncology Education Development Specialist

Alyssa Ao is a rising sophomore in Lowell House from Wayland, Massachusetts. She currently plans to study Neuroscience and Art, Film, & Visual Studies and hopes to develop her interests at the intersection of health equity, humanitarian medicine, and art...

Thiri Shwesin Aung, PhD, MBA

Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Thiri Aung is a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Thiri's research aims to understand the relationships among energy crisis, violent conflicts, climate and land-use change, ecological and hydrological processes, and economic...

Florence Awde, MAS

Practicum Student

A recent graduate from Arizona State University, and current student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Florence (Flo) Awde is a dedicated scholar specializing in Child Health, Public Health, Childhood Cancer health equity, and...

Mohammad Ali Aziz-Sultan, MD, MBA

Harvard Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Sultan is a neurosurgeon at Mass General Brigham specializing in cerebrovascular diseases and stroke. He is the founding Director of the Mass General Brigham Global Neurosurgery Program. With a clinical focus comprising 80% of his time, Dr. Sultan...

Carolyn Baer, MPH

Director of Partnerships and Planning, Children in Crisis Program, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Carolyn Baer is a global health specialist with over 15 years of experience in developing and leading global health programs focusing on reproductive health needs for women and girls in humanitarian settings as well as implementing infectious disease...

Vincenzo Bollettino, PhD

Director, Program on Resilient Communities

Director, National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership

Dr. Bollettino is the Director of Resilient Communities Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He also leads HHI’s engagement in the National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership. Prior to his current academic appointment, Dr. Bollettino served...