Challenges in Humanitarian Response Implementation: A Large-Scale Review of Aid Worker Perspectives.
Bollettino V, Isely R, Nyarko G, Rudnicki C, Rehmani K, Stoddard H, Vinck P.
Disasters. 2023 Jul 28. PMID: 37504493
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Patrick Vinck
Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population
Global Health and Population
Other Positions
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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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.
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Understanding the barriers and facilitators of COVID-19 risk mitigation strategy adoption and COVID-19 vaccination in refugee settlements in Uganda: a qualitative study.
Klabbers RE, Muwonge TR, Ajidiru S, Borthakur S, Mujugira A, Sharma M, Vinck P, Pham P, Celum C, Parkes-Ratanshi R, O'Laughlin KN.
BMC Public Health. 2023 07 20. 23(1):1401. PMID: 37474936
Innovative strategies to remotely sample hard-to-reach populations: Assessing phone versus Internet respondent driven sampling approaches among Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Colombia.
Pham PN, Johnston L, Keegan K, Wei C, Vinck P.
Am J Epidemiol. 2023 May 16. PMID: 37194729
COVID-19-related mental health challenges and opportunities perceived by mental health providers in the Philippines.
Bollettino V, Foo CYS, Stoddard H, Daza M, Sison AC, Teng-Calleja M, Vinck P.
Asian J Psychiatr. 2023 Jun. 84:103578. PMID: 37075675
Leveraging interactive voice response technology to mitigate COVID-19 risk in refugee settlements in Uganda: Lessons learned implementing "Dial-COVID" a toll-free mobile phone symptom surveillance and information dissemination tool.
Klabbers RE, Muwonge TR, Pham P, Mujugira A, Vinck P, Borthakur S, Sharma M, Mohammed N, Parkes-Ratanshi R, Celum C, O'Laughlin KN.
PLoS One. 2023. 18(1):e0279373. PMID: 36689419
Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Colombia using respondent-driven sampling (RDS).
Pham PN, Keegan K, Johnston LG, Rodas J, Restrepo MA, Wei C, Vinck P.
BMJ Open. 2022 10 05. 12(10):e054820. PMID: 36198458
Protective Behaviors Associated With Gender During the 2018-2020 Ebola Outbreak in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Pham PN, Sharma M, Bindu KK, Zikomangane P, Nethery RC, Nilles E, Vinck P.
JAMA Netw Open. 2022 02 01. 5(2):e2147462. PMID: 35171261
Fear, distress, and perceived risk shape stigma toward Ebola survivors: a prospective longitudinal study.
Antonaccio CM, Pham P, Vinck P, Collet K, Brennan RT, Betancourt TS.
BMC Public Health. 2021 11 11. 21(1):2066. PMID: 34763704
Factors influencing utilization and perception of health care: a qualitative study among traumatized Yazidi refugees in Germany.
Tran VM, Fozouni L, Denkinger JK, Rometsch C, Junne F, Vinck P, Pham P.
BMC Psychiatry. 2021 07 12. 21(1):346. PMID: 34247590
Association between distress and displacement settings: a cross-sectional survey among displaced Yazidis in northern Iraq.
Pham PN, Fozouni L, Al-Saiedi A, Coughlin K, Vinck P.
BMC Public Health. 2021 04 08. 21(1):679. PMID: 33827517
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