Innovative humanitarians share work on crisis in Aleppo (interview with Adam Levine)
December 20, 2016 WPRO State of Mind
Faculty Fellow Adam Levine joined WPRO's Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss his work in addressing humanitarian crises.
News Archive 2016
Treating cholera in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew (interview with Adam Levine)
November 11, 2016 News from Brown
Dr. Adam Levine, director of the new Humanitarian Innovation Initiative, discusses his time in Haiti managing a cholera treatment unit for International Medical Corps. following Hurricane Matthew.
Watson Institute starts Humanitarian Innovation Initiative
October 28, 2016 Brown Daily Herald
The Humanitarian Innovation Initiative, which aims to improve humanitarian efforts by grounding them in a solid foundation of academic research, has launched at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs this year.
New Brown center aims to improve humanitarian crisis response (comments by Adam Levine)
October 18, 2016 RI NPR
Humanitarian crises are multiplying around the globe, but a Brown University researcher says we could be responding in a more rigorous way.
Venezuela has solved its hunger problem? Don't believe the U.N.'s numbers (written by Michelle Jurkovich)
September 21, 2016 The Washington Post
Michelle Jurkovich in The Washington Post, "We haven’t decided what 'hunger' is, nor is there agreement on how to measure it."
Scholars Examine How Climate Change Plays Into Humanitarian Relief Efforts
June 13, 2016 News from Watson
“The conditions that create vulnerability to disasters [include] global inequalities, unfair terms of trade, denial of human rights, concentration of people and resources in harm’s way, and environmentally destructive development.” Fiona Miller
Bombings and Biodata: The Daily Uncertainty of Being a Syrian Refugee
May 6, 2016 News from Watson
"A misplaced envelope, a missing barcode, or a cigarette carelessly dropped in the room could mean irretrievable loss for those that have suffered so much already." -Associate Director of Middle East Studies, Sarah Tobin
For Syrian Refugee Children, Scholars and Scientists Combine to Connect Research with Relief
April 5, 2016 News from Watson
“Since 2011, many of us have been watching the situation in Syria with growing alarm — it’s a major crisis — and wondering, maybe privately, what we can do.” -- Beshara Doumani