Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

Refugees wait to travel back to Ukraine from the train station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland

Ukraine: The humanitarian catastrophe

March 31, 2022Coronavirus Conversations

As part of our regular series of conversations with Harvard University’s T.H. Chan’s School of Public Health, The World’s reporter Elana Gordon moderated a discussion with Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, about the dire situation and the multiple health risks that refugees from Ukraine, and from around the world, face. VanRooyen is also the chairman of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (@HHI).

In this photograph taken from above, thousands of temportary shelters are shown across a wide arid area.

Discussion: How the coronavirus affects already fragile communities

August 10, 2020Coronavirus Conversations

Days before the sudden influx, monitors reported that people were arriving by bus and setting up makeshift camps on the Syrian side of the Peshkhabour border crossing. UNHCR / G.Gubaeva.

Harvard forum asks how the world can help Syrians caught in the war

October 16, 2013Conflict & Justice

Face to face with Congo rapists

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media