HHI faculty, fellows, and students serve as a resource for technical, research, and training assistance to more than 40 humanitarian agencies and international institutions.
Recent Projects
- American Red Cross
- Evaluation of the public health response to Hurricane Katrina
- Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (Belgium)
- International course instruction on "Assessing Public Health in Emergency Situations"
- Database development for conflict and disaster mortality and mordibity tracking
- Department for International Development, United Kingdom
- Civil society consultation on DFID's plan for working with three Indias
- Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada
- "Integrating Public Health Methods & Data into Conflict Analysis": workshop development
- EMERGENCY (Italy)
- Organizational strategic planning for post-conflict service delivery assistance for executive leadership in Milan
- Assessment of health services in surgical hospital in Cambodia
- Preparation of data set analysis for landmine injury data in Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Iraq
- Inter-agency Standing Committee (IASC)
- Health sector-wide coordination strategy development
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Guidelines for the psycho-social and mental health assessment and management of displaced populations in humanitarian crises
- International Rescue Committee
- Population-based mortality study assistance in Democratic Republic of Congo
- Repatriation program assistant for Burundian refugees in Tanzania
- Médecins Sans Frontières – Epicentre (France)
- Analysis of WHO growth standards and displaced malnourished children in Niger
- MSF and Epicentre Scientific Assembly moderation in Paris
- New Orleans Department of Public Health
- Analysis of the use of newspaper death notices to determine excess mortality from Hurricane Katrina
- Oxfam America
- Drought early warning system development in Ethiopia
- Cholera epidemic assessment in Ethiopia
- Epidemiologic assessment of water and sanitation conditions for internally-displaced persons in Mozambique to guide the development of infrastructure in relocation camps
- Physicians for Human Rights
- Network study describing patterns of sexual violence incurred on Darfuri refugee women in Chad
- Documentation of Darfur village destruction and interviews of displaced persons in Chad refugee camps
- Documentation of prison conditions and mass grave sites in Afghanistan
- Save The Children
- Assessment of leadership and governance structure with Harvard Business School faculty and Kennedy School of Government students
- UNFPA
- Report on sexual violence during war and forced migration
- United Nations High Committee for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Health service delivery plan assessment for Iraqi refugees in Jordan
- Evaluation of HIV and TB programming in Eastern African displacement camps
- UN Office of the Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery
- Report on evaluation methods for the NGO Impact Initiative
- World Health Organization
- Survey of barriers to NGOs' adoption of a common health data-reporting system