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Students learn humanitarian response skills during weekend simulation
Ninety current and aspiring humanitarian workers spent a soggy weekend in April learning how to provide aid during a complex disaster and conflict situation.

Harvard Chan School’s Christopher Golden receives grant to strengthen public health systems through artificial intelligence
Harvard Chan School’s Christopher Golden is among the recipients of the National Science Foundation’s recent $140 million investment in artificial intelligence (AI). He will co-lead a project aimed at strengthening the public health system in Madagascar through AI…

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative selects The New Humanitarian for Weintz Award
The New Humanitarian, a nonprofit news organization that reports from the heart of conflicts and disasters, has been selected to receive the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s 2023 Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award.

Humanitarian training offered in Turkish, Ukrainian
The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative has collaborated on the development of online humanitarian training in Turkish, to support those responding to ongoing needs following the devastating earthquake in Turkey in February, and in Ukrainian, to support responders to the…
The Turkey-Syria earthquake’s humanitarian challenges
The February 6 earthquake in Turkey and Syria has killed more than 35,000 people and left tens of thousands more injured and displaced.

Ukraine atrocities could spark greater focus on international justice
The war in Ukraine could be a watershed moment for furthering meaningful international justice, according to experts from Harvard University.
Negotiating humanitarian access on the front lines in Ukraine
Claude Bruderlein, adjunct lecturer on global health at Harvard Chan School and senior researcher at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, describes the challenges of humanitarian negotiations in regions affected by conflict.

Calling out a double standard in treatment of refugees from Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has unleashed “new, overt, and cruel manifestations of racism” in Europe, according to three experts from Harvard Chan School.

Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a massive humanitarian crisis, with mounting military and civilian casualties and more than two million people on the move to escape the violence. In this Big 3 Q&A, Michael VanRooyen, director of…

Thousands of Bahamians seek shelter in wake of Dorian
Roughly 70,000 people have been left homeless in the Bahamas after Dorian, a Category 5 hurricane, stalled over the island for days. Some are calling for the U.S. to take in people in desperate need of shelter, food,…