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One year after Haitian earthquake, HSPH faculty and alumni involved in recovery efforts reflect on progress
HSPH's Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, spoke to the Harvard Gazette about HHI's response over the past year to the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which included a joint effort with Brigham and Women’s…
Marcus leads disaster-readiness summit
A group of 100 Milwaukee business and governmental leaders recently role-played a terrorist attack scenario at The Meta-Leadership Summit for Preparedness, run in partnership with HSPH and Harvard Kennedy School's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. Co-Director Leonard Marcus is…
Global health: Flood illuminates the struggles of Pakistan's women
September 22, 2010 -- The scene that confronted Nabeel Zafar, MPH ’10, in southern Pakistan’s flood-ravaged Khairpur district was devastating. While visiting displaced persons camps on a medical aid mission, he and his fellow physicians found hundreds of…
Young victim of Haitian earthquake learns to use crutches
September, 2010 -- HSPH professor Hilarie Cranmer narrates as a young patient learns to use crutches after losing her right foot during January's earthquake in Haiti.
Aftermath of a world at war: Photojournalists' exhibit records tragic results of remote conflicts
The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is sponsoring the traveling exhibit "Our World at War: Photojournalism Beyond the Front Lines." The International Committee of the Red Cross commissioned five award-winning photojournalists from the VII Photo Agency to document the aftermath…
Rebuilding shattered lives
[Fall 2010] When an earthquake struck in Chile, HSPH alum Karen Anderson and the community health group she founded were the first on the scene—and they’re still there. At 3:34 a.m. on February 27, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude…
Global health news: In Pakistan, controlling water is key
Pakistan is a nation built around a single river, the 1,800-mile Indus. Earlier this summer, rains sent floodwaters raging down the river, killing more than 1,600 and destroying more than a million homes, along with bridges, roads, power…
Global health news: Harvard continues to help Haiti rebuilding efforts
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Director Michael VanRooyen is quoted in a Harvard Crimson article about Harvard’s ongoing efforts to help Haiti rebuild following the devastating earthquake earlier this year. VanRooyen is an associate professor in the HSPH Department of…
Bridging a cultural divide
[Winter 2010] Are better tools needed to identify emotional distress in non-Western refugees? More than 17,000 Iraqi refugees arrived in the United States in 2009, carrying the deep physical and emotional scars of war. Many are widows with…
A tale of two countries: Q and A with Professor Jennifer Leaning
[ Fall 2008 ] On May 2, Cyclone Nargis hit the coast of Myanmar, devastating the low-lying Irrawaddy delta with 120 miles-per-hour winds and a 12-foot tidal surge. Ten days later, an earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter scale struck…
