Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Global Health and Population
Global Health and Population
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Lecturer on African and African American Studies
African Amer Studies
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Vinck, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health and in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He is also the Research Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He leads a team conducting research on resilience, peacebuilding, and social cohesion in contexts of mass violence, conflicts and natural disasters, with support from the Mac Arthur Foundation, UNDP and UNICEF among others. This research has lead him to examine the role of technology and ethics of data in the field. He is the co-founder and director of KoBoToolbox a digital data collection platform, and the Data-Pop Alliance, a Big Data partnership with MIT and ODI. Dr. Vinck served on the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) form 2010 to 2017. He serves as a regular advisor and evaluation consultant to the United Nations and other agencies. He graduated as an engineer in applied biological sciences from Gembloux Agricultural University (Belgium), and holds a Ph.D. in International Development from Tulane University.
Oliver N, Lepri B, Sterly H, Lambiotte R, Deletaille S, De Nadai M, Letouzé E, Salah AA, Benjamins R, Cattuto C, Colizza V, de Cordes N, Fraiberger SP, Koebe T, Lehmann S, Murillo J, Pentland A, Pham PN, Pivetta F, Saramäki J, Scarpino SV, Tizzoni M, Verhulst S, Vinck P.
Sci Adv. 2020 06. 6(23):eabc0764. PMID: 32548274
Kraemer MUG, Pigott DM, Hill SC, Vanderslott S, Reiner RC, Stasse S, Brownstein JS, Gutierrez B, Dennig F, Hay SI, Wint GRW, Pybus OG, Castro MC, Vinck P, Pham PN, Nilles EJ, Cauchemez S.
BMC Med. 2020 04 27. 18(1):113. PMID: 32336281
Enenkel M, Stokes E, Shrestha RM, Román M, Wang Z, Hajzmanova I, Ginetti J, Espinosa MDM, Vinck P.
IBM Journal of Research and Development. 2020. 1/2(64):8:1-8:12.
Kreutzer T, Vinck P, Pham PN, An A, Appel L, DeLuca E, Tang G, Alzghool M, Hachhethu K, Morris B, Walton-Ellery SL, Crowley J, Orninski J.
IBM Journal of Research and Development. 2020. 1/2(64):9:1-9:14.
Pham PN, Balthazard M, Vinck P.
Journal of International Criminal Justice. 2020. 2(18):373-396.
Erickson TB, Brooks J, Nilles EJ, Pham PN, Vinck P.
J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev. 2019. 22(5-6):157-171. PMID: 31437111
Vinck P, Pham PN, Bindu KK, Bedford J, Nilles EJ.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 05. 19(5):529-536. PMID: 30928435
Salah AA, Pentland A, Lepri B, Letouzé E, de Montjoye YA, Dong X, Vinck P (Eds).
Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios - The 'Data for Refugees Challenge' Study. 2019. 500pp.
Vinck P, Pham PN, Salah AA.
“Do No Harm” in the Age of Big Data: Data, Ethics, and the Refugees. 2019.
Pham PN, Gibbons N, Vinck P.
International Journal of Human Rights. 2019. 6(23):993-1009.
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