50,000 Deaths in Turkey-Syria Earthquake – Immediate and Long-Term Response
Friday, March 3rd, 2023 |
The earth would occasionally rumble under my feet as a child living with my grandmother in Greece. We ran outside of her brick home; fearful it would collapse and kill us. One month ago, just 400 miles away in Turkey ...
Who Won The 2022 Humanitarian Crisis Response Award?
Friday, June 17th, 2022 |
This award recognizes individuals and organizations who provide exemplary disaster response services for highly vulnerable communities. In doing so, they accentuate the value of life and provide an exemplary model for us all. The 2022 Humanitarian Crisis Response Award recipient is ...
Changing Of Heart Towards Refugees?
Friday, August 27th, 2021 |
Are Americans experiencing a change of heart towards refugees? Since Aug 16, we've witnessed with dismay the immediate Taliban return to power in Afghanistan. We've viewed with horror the carnage of airport suicide bombings. We've peered inside the crammed compartment ...
“Massive” “Colossal” “Immense” and 305,140 Lebanese
Friday, August 7th, 2020 |
“Massive” “Colossal” and “Immense” – words that inadequately describe the magnitude of the explosion which convulsed Beirut, Lebanon, three days ago. With the force of an early atomic bomb, 2,700 tons of highly combustible ammonium nitrate ignited in the congested ...
Meet Khalid Eddahiri – INMED Master’s in International Health Candidate
Friday, July 17th, 2020 |
"How can international aid organizations better respond to human catastrophes, like what is unfolding at this moment in Yemen?" Khalid Eddahiri, United Nations Medical Officer and INMED Master's in International Health (MIH) candidate, is tackling this compelling question for his ...
Haitians Aided in Puerto Rico – It’s True!
Friday, January 19th, 2018 |
In an inspiring paradigm shift, healthcare professionals from the island nation of Haiti journeyed to the island territory of Puerto Rico, providing emergency disaster assistance. Parallel to the Haitian earthquake of 2010, Hurricane Maria unleashed devastation on Puerto Rico on ...
What Is Today’s Most Urgent Humanitarian Crisis?
Friday, September 29th, 2017 |
Sadly, we have a crowded line up of contenders for this moment's most pressing human catastrophe. They include Syrians fleeing ISIS, Yemen's cholera epidemic, South Sudanese facing starvation. Yet almost unnoticed, and eclipsing them all, are the more than 400,000 ...
Refugee Healthcare Phases
Friday, June 2nd, 2017 |
At this moment, UNHCR estimates more than 63 million people are uprooted - more than at any time since WWII. In step with such mobilization, general aid and healthcare for refugees is becoming progressively more pressing, too. Understanding the Refugee Emergency ...
INMED Award Recipient Returns Toward Mosul
Friday, May 12th, 2017 |
Lawand Talal is journeying back into harm's way. Today the 2017 INMED Compassionate Service to Humanity Award Recipient is departing his post at the University of Missouri and traveling back into our world's bloodiest conflict: the battle to liberate the ...
My Grandfather Was An IDP
Friday, April 21st, 2017 |
Internally Displaced People (IDPs) are one startling facet of today's global refugee crisis. Accompanying well recognized conflicts in the Syria, Iraq, and Middle East are lesser known yet equally deadly locals of social strife causing people to flee for safety ...
