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Urbanization and Resilience

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Founded: 2017 Faculty Lead: Ronak B. Patel, MD, MPH Status: Completed Program, 2023 Research Theme: Risk, Resilience and Response Description: Rapid urbanization concentrates risks and hazards to health, wellbeing and crises. Urban crises also challenge...

From Crisis to Resilience: Systems Approaches to Urban Resilience in Fragile and Conflict Affected Contexts

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Register at http://hsph.me/resilience_webinar3 GOAL, The Rand Corporation, University College London, and The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, sponsored by Irish Aid, are hosting “From Crisis to Resilience”, a webinar series that aims to spark interest...

The association between social cohesion and community resilience in two urban slums of Port au Prince, Haiti

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Multiple recent global agendas have advanced the case for resilience to underpin humanitarian action and disaster risk reduction. These agendas have been incorporated into multiple efforts but evidence to guide action has lagged behind. This study...

Defining the Resilient City

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This background note is part of the United Nations University project on Resilience and the Fragile City and is meant to complement the paper ‘Conceptualizing City Fragility and Resilience’ (de Boer, Muggah, Patel 2016) which formally presents the fragile...

Hope in the Face of Displacement and Rapid Urbanization

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This study seeks to offer a practical examination of resilience in complex urban landscapes for the academic community and humanitarian actors at the local and international levels. Distrito de Aguablanca (Cali, Colombia), a complex settlement area with...

Urban Humanitarian Emergencies Course

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**Urban Humanitarian Emergencies Course UPDATE** The Urban Humanitarian Emergencies Course will not be offered in 2026 due to resource limitations. Please sign up for the course interest below to stay up to date about when the workshop will be offered...

Cities, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development: Interplay in the Context of Bangladesh

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Evidently, environmental sustainability and urban resilience go hand in hand. There are now climate change-related policy discussions, awareness-raising campaigns, and concrete actions being taken at the regional, national, and municipal levels of...

Youth Empowerment for Urban Climate Resilience: Establishing a Climate Science and Collaboration Hub in Bo City, Sierra Leone

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Kelsey Gleason, ScD, MS

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Dr. Kelsey Gleason is a public health researcher whose work focuses on reducing health disparities and building resilience for improved health outcomes. Her research incorporates principles of health equity across global health, environmental health, and...

How climate change threatens human security in Bangladesh?

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Introduction Climate change, one of the most urgent problems of our day, endangers the lives and way of life of billions of people. Climate change is a pressing issue that only appears to get worse, as seen by an uptick in natural disasters, refugee...

How can communication support community resilience? 10 impact lessons over 10 years of programming in Asia

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(Part 2 of 3) By HHI Resilient Communities Communication is a fundamental tool of community resilience because it builds collective understanding, empowerment, and action. It creatively transforms and demystifies technical data, analysis, and plans into...

Conflict’s Impacts on Food Systems: Evidence from Somalia, Sudan and Haiti

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Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conflicts-impacts-on-food-systems-eviden… Conflict’s devastating impacts on food security are a growing focus for humanitarian actors, policymakers and researchers...