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The Harvard Humanitarian is a monthly e-newsletter compiled by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) to publicize news, publications, and events in the Harvard community related to advancing responses to humanitarian crises of war and disaster. Please help us make this a robust resource by contributing your Harvard community news items via email.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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HHI leads the charge in Crisis Mapping
HHI
and John Carroll University (JCU) are jointly hosting the First International
Conference on Crisis Mapping on Thursday, October 15 - Sunday, October 18, 2009.
The conference will bring together over 60 leading organizations
comprising the most engaged crisis-mapping practitioners, scholars and platform
developers from around the world to showcase and advance the cutting edge of
the Crisis Mapping field.
For more information, visit the
conference website.
Michael VanRooyen, HHI
Co-Director, elected to Harvard Medical Faculty Council
Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH, FACEP has been elected as the
new Medicine and Population Medicine Representative to the Harvard Medical School
Faculty Council.
Welcome new HHI Fellows
We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new HHI Fellows. Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH and Justyna Zander, PhD will be joining the HHI team this fall. Dr. McQueen will be working on the effects of surgical epidemology in conflict settings and Dr. Zander will be focusing on global climate change and its impacts on the health of human populations.
To read more about Dr. McQueen & Dr. Zander, please see our Fellows page here
HHI presents gender-based
violence research at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative conference
HHI Gender-Based Violence
Research Coordinator, Jocelyn Kelly, presented her
research on rape in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative conference in Johannesburg,
South Africa on
July 6-9, 2009. The results of the clinical chart review from Panzi Hospital
were presented, as well as results from a study on community attitudes
and preliminary findings from interviews with a Congolese militia group.
For more information, visit the conference website.
HHI conducts sexual and gender-based violence research in
Djohong District,
Cameroon
HHI affiliated researchers,
Stephanie Rosborough, MD, MPH and Parveen Parmar, MD, traveled to Djohong
District, Cameroon on behalf of the International Medical Corps to conduct
field research on the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence among Cameroonians and Central African Republic refugees. The team surveyed a total of six hundred women
over a 10-day period.
Physicians for Human Rights in partnership with HHI document sexual violence in Chadian refugee camp: 'Nowhere to Turn: Failure to Protect, Support and Assure Justice for Darfuri Women'
HHI Fellow, Dr.
Julie VanRooyen, and researchers from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
traveled to eastern Chad to
conduct a scientific study on the scope and impact of sexual violence occurring
in the Farchana refugee camp. The report, released in
June 2009, substantiates the ongoing sexual violence and crimes against
humanity occurring in Darfur and in
neighboring Chadian refugee camps.
Please visit DarfuriWomen.org to learn more and download a full version of the report.
HHI affiliate faculty, Dr. Kristian Olson, awarded the top ten honor in Scientific American magazine.
Alongside
Bill Gates and Barack Obama, Dr. Kristian Olson was awarded a top ten
honor by Scientific America. The magazine celebrates ten researchers,
politicians, business executives and philanthropists who have 'recently
demonstrated outstanding commitment to assuring that the benefits of of
new technologies and knowledge will accrue to humanity'. Dr. Olson was
noted for his work on simple, low-cost resuscitators and incubators to
save newborns in the developing world.
The full article can be found here
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UPCOMING EVENTS at HARVARD
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listed here are subject to change without notice. Please contact the
event host for more information.
Physicians for Human Rights Regional Advocacy Institute
Saturday, November 7th, 9:30am-4:30pm
Harvard Medical School
PHR Regional Institutes are geared toward
instilling a heightened awareness of each student's advocacy power, helping
them make new connections, and sharing ideas for taking action during the
academic year. This event is open to the public.
Sessions and speakers will include:
- PHR:
Our Role & Our Impact: Sarah Kalloch, Outreach and Constituency
Organizing Director, PHR
- "Clean
Needles Save Lives: Why and What We Can Do": Paola Barahona, Senior Global
Health Advocate, PHR
- "Health
and Human Rights Education" Panel & Breakout
- Leading
student activists presenting on sessions such as "Organizing Effective
Events" and "Building Relationships with your Member of Congress"
For more information, please email Danielle Fox, PHR Student
Program Coordinator, at dfox@phrusa.org or
visit www.knowdareact.org.
HKS Crisis
Management Welcome Event
Wednesday, September 2nd,
3:00pm-5:00pm
Location TBA
The Harvard Kennedy School Crisis Management Group
will be hosting a welcome event to give students the opportunity to learn about the student group and upcoming activities and courses. This event is open to the public.
Please email Ophelia Roman at ophelia_roman@hks10.harvard.edu
for more information.
Carr Center Weekly Brown Bag Lunch Series
Every Wednesday, 12:00pm
First date TBA
Carr Center conference room
Rubenstein Building Rm. 219
Every week the Harvard Kennedy School
Carr Center
for Human Rights Policy will host a series of brown-bag lunchtime
presentations. Guest speakers will begin with a short presentation, to be
followed by a question and answer period.
Lunch will be provided. These
events are open to Harvard students only.
Please email Steven
Brzozowski, the Carr Center Advocacy and Outreach Manager, at steven_brzozwski@hks.harvard.edu
for more information.
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PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
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Anderson, W., E. Bonventre, FM Burkle, S.
Isralow, L. Butler, and D. Maxwell. Civilian-Military Relations an LTL
Strategies Study Group: Consensus Report, 2009. Publication. United States
Agency for International Development.
- Burkle, FM, D. Ozgediz, P. Dunbar, C.
Mock, M. Cherian, SO Rogers, R. Riviello, JG Meara, D. Jamison, SB Macfarlane,
and K. McQueen. "Bridging the gap between public health and surgery:
Access to surgical care in low- and middle-income countries." Bulletin
of the American College Surgeons 94.5 (May 2009):
14-20.
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Clark, M. "Congo:
Confronting rape as a weapon of war." The Christian Science Monitor
2 Aug. 2009.
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Hirschfield, K., J. Leaning, S.
Crosby, L. Piwowarczyk, J. VanRooyen, G. Greenough, S. Bartels, A. Fricke, S.
Sirkin, L. Black, V. Iacopino, and K. Lanigan. "Nowhere to Turn: Failure to
Protect, Support and Assure Justice for Darfuri Women." Publication.
Physicians for Human Rights in partnership with Harvard Humanitarian
Initiative.
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Kelly, J., and W. Cragin. "Ban
Ki-moon Lauds Recognition of Rape as a Form of Genocide." Weblog post. Change.org.
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, 8 Aug. 2009. Web.
<http://humanitarianrelief.change.org/blog/view/ban_ki-moon_lauds_recognition_of_rape_as_a_form_of_genocide>.
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Kelly, J. "Rape in Congo: Now It?s
Everybody?s Problem." Weblog post. Change. Harvard Humanitarian
Initiative, 14 Aug. 2009. Web.
<http://humanitarianrelief.change.org/blog/view/rape_in_congo_now_its_everybodys_problem>.
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Leaning, J. "Health and Human
Security in the 21st Century." Facing Global Environmental Change:
Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts.
Vol. 4. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, June 2009. 541-51.
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McCluskey, E. "Simulation of Darfur Refugee Camps Trains Future Humanitarian
Leaders." Harvard Public Health NOW (May 2009).
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Powell, A. "Looking Horror in
the Face." Harvard
University Gazette
13 May 2009: 16.
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"Rape of the Congo: Making Sense of Sexual Violence in Central Africa." Harvard Public Health Review
(2009): 21-25. Web.
<http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hphr/spring-2009/congo.html>.
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Smith, J. F. "Tracking the war
on women in Darfur: Boston
doctors detail accounts of rape, assault." Boston Globe 31 May 2009.
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About The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
HHI fosters interdisciplinary collaboration at Harvard University in order to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian strategies for relief, protection, and prevention; instill human rights principles and practices in these strategies; and educate and train the next generation of humanitarian leaders. In 2005, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative was established as a University-wide interfaculty academic and research center, supported by the Office of the Provost and the Harvard School of Public Health with the participation of faculty from Harvard schools and affiliated hospitals. For more information, visit www.hhi.harvard.edu.
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