Professor Astier M. Almedom (PI) and Professor George A. Bonanno (PI) have been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant to develop methods and tools for measuring community resilience to extreme events. This research...
Research and Engagement Supporting Poverty Elimination in Haiti (RESPE)
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Program News|January 29, 2013
- Programs : International Resilience Program
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Program News|September 21, 2012
As part of the EPIIC “Conflict in the 21st Century” symposium in February 2012, EPIIC for the first time dedicated one of its breakout sessions to gathering experts and students in thinking about the following year's theme on global health and security. One of the leaders of the session was Ezra Barzilay, an alumnus of both Tufts undergraduate and medical schools and a Commander in the US Public Health Service as...
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Program News|September 21, 2012Myanmar sits at a crossroads, between the oppression of the last decades and the recent promise of an opening society; between its isolation and the possibility of rejoining the international community; and between the rising geographical powers of China and India. After decades under severe authoritarian military rule, virtually closed off to the outside world, Myanmar is just starting to see an influx of international visitors and...
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Program News|September 21, 2012“We are all BUILD,” mused Janani Duraisamy, reflecting upon her position as Learning Center administrator for the past year.
Janani is a student and resident of the village of Thottiyapatti, a bustling hamlet of about 300 people located approximately three kilometers from the larger village of Thenur in rural Perambular, Tamil Nadu, India.
For the past two years, the IGL’s BUILD: India program has been working with the NGO...
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Program News|February 9, 2012- Programs : Alumni Program
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012: ‘Zahra’s Paradise’ is the new graphic novel by an Iranian-American author. He tells host Marco Werman how he created a webstrip based on the images streaming out of the Iranian protests in 2009. Listen to the full story at Soundcloud.com.
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Program News|June 22, 2011EXP 91F
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00-5:30pm, Barnum 008
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Program News|May 16, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Jacqueline Kingfield has won a Boren Fellowship for a year in India where she will be studying Urdu as part of completing her MALD degree at the Fletcher School.
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Program News|April 28, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Graduating senior Tiffany Castillo has won the Thomas F. Black Jr Memorial Scholarship of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation. Tiffany will be attending Boston College Law School in the Fall.
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Program News|April 28, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Graduating senior Chloé Rousseau was awarded the Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship on April 15th. Chloé will be pursuing her master's in public health studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the Fall.
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Program News|March 25, 2011
- Programs : International Resilience Program
Professor Almedom and her colleagues/students at the Fltecher School answer informal questions on the study of resilience and the details of publishing in the Resilience journal.
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Program News|July 13, 2010
A SHORT TERM PUSH WITH A LONG TERM PLAN
Posted on 06/23/10
By Kanupriya Tewari, Partners in Health
Realizing the impact of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, students of Tufts University quickly assembled the Tufts Haiti Relief Coalition to convey their support to the people of Haiti.
The Coalition, a partnership among previously unconnected...
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IGL News|May 14, 2010This folio, featuring the photography of noted VII Photographer Ron Haviv and an introductory essay by Simon Winchester, was initiated by the Institute to address this year’s catastrophic earthquake in Haiti.
7.0 Magnitude
230,000 people killed
3,000,000 people affected in a country where 85 percent of the population was already living in povertyAll proceeds from the sale of this work go directly to provide support...
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IGL News|April 9, 2010
RESPE: Haiti will travel to Balan, Haiti during the summer of 2010 to implement a maternal health initiative with the $10,000 Davis Peace Project grant it was recently awarded. The Nesans Project, a collaboration between Tufts students and Balan community members, consists of constructing a sanitary birthing ward in Balan's clinic as well as facilitating maternal health trainings for the town's traditional birth attendants. The Haitian...
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IGL News|January 16, 2010
RESPE Member Ashley Allison reports in GlobalPost from the Dominican Republic about the January 12th earthquake in Haiti.
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Program News|April 30, 2009
November- January 2008
- Students planned first trip to Haiti.
January 2008:
- RESPE: Boston’s assessment trip. We listened to Balan’s priorities, which included health, education, and finance; met with community leaders; and established RESPE: Balan, which guides our research and identifies local resources and needs.
Spring 2008:
- We strengthened our Boston ties with our current partners, the...