Introduction Over the last decade, Latin America and the Caribbean has experienced rising incomes and countries in the region have substantially improved health-care coverage for people who live in...
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Informe sobre Equidad en Salud 2016: Análisis de las inequidades en salud reproductiva, materna, neonatal, de la niñez y de la adolescencia en América Latina y el Caribe para guiar la formulación de políticas
Educación, ingreso y etnia son los factores sociales que más influyen en la salud de niños, niñas, adolescentes y madres Presentación hoy del Informe sobre Equidad en Salud, de UNICEF y la...
World + 4 more
Higher Education Solutions Network Resilient Africa Network: A Systematic Approach to Resilience Assessment, Measurement and Analysis Led by Makerere University
The ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) is a partnership among sub-Saharan African and American universities led by Makerere University in Uganda. The RAN is co-directed by Tulane University and includes...
Tulane part of $25 million effort to research, promote African resilience
Michael Strecker Phone: 504-314-2603 mstreck@tulane.edu ResilientAfrica, a consortium that includes Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy, Makerere University in Uganda, Stanford...
Evaluation de l’aide humanitaire en Haïti sous l’angle de la résilience
Résumé exécutif Le présent rapport publie les résultats du programme d’Evaluation de l’Assistance Humanitaire en Haïti suite au séisme du 12 janvier 2010, dirigé conjointement par la Disaster...
Haiti Humanitarian Assistance Evaluation - From a Resilience Perspective
Executive Summary This report of the Haiti Humanitarian Assistance Evaluation of the 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th was undertaken by Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience...
Syria + 4 more
Yale-Tulane ESF-8 Program Special Report: Syrian Uprising 26 March 2012
(Extract) SITUATION OVERVIEW Heavy violence continues in Syria while diplomatic pressure mounts against both the government and opposition. Health indicators are worsening, refugee counts increases,...
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Yale-Tulane ESF-8 Program Special Report: Syrian Uprising 18 March 2012
(Extract) SITUATION OVERVIEW • Heavy violence continues to be reported in the Karm al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Homs, the northwestern Idlib province, and the eastern city of Deir al-Zor. • Syrian...
Chronic Poverty Stalks Haitian Earthquake Victims Still Living in Camps
Keith Brannon Phone: 504-862-8789 kbrannon@tulane.edu More than a third of households affected by the deadly 2010 Haiti earthquake and over half of those living in the camps have not recovered basic...
Tulane University Gets $5 Million Grant for Global Disaster-Leadership Program
January 4, 2012 Keith Brannon Phone: 504-862-8789 kbrannon@tulane.edu Tulane University has been awarded a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help universities in...
Yale-Tulane ESF-8 Program Special Report: Earthquake - Turkey, 2 Nov 2011
SITUATION As of 30 OCT 2011: The death toll is at 601 , the number of injured 4,152, the number pulled from rubble alive 188. (AFAD) AFTERSHOCKS There have been 1,769 aftershocks since the earthquake...
Yale-Tulane ESF-8 Program Special Report: Earthquake - Turkey, 26 Oct 2011
SITUATION • The counted death toll is at 461 at the moment (as of 26 OCT 0900 hrs. CET). 1352 people have been injured, and 2262 buildings destroyed. (AFAD) • AS of 25 OCT there has been 678...
Yale-Tulane ESF-8 Program Special Report: Earthquake - Turkey, 25 Oct 2011
SITUATION • On 23 October 2011 in Turkey when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck at 13.41 (local time), around 12 miles (19km) from the eastern city of Van (Van province). • Reportedly 279 people were...
Haiti Humanitarian Aid Evaluation - Structured Analysis Summary Report
Executive Summary Over the past twelve months, the international community comprised of non-governmental organizations, United Nations, and donor governments have supported the Haitian people and its...
Bill and Melinda Gates Fund Assessment of Haitian Aid
Mike Strecker Phone: 504-865-5210 mstreck@tulane.edu Tulane University's Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy (DRLA), in partnership with the University of Haiti, will assess the impact of...
When the war ends: A population-based survey on attitudes about peace, justice, and social reconstruction in Northern Uganda
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Twenty-one years of war, destruction, and the displacement of over 1.5 million people have turned northern Ugandan into a humanitarian disaster. One of the war's principal...
Abducted: The Lord's Resistance Army and forced conscription in Northern Uganda
Executive Summary Since the late 1980s, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a spiritualist rebel group with no clear political agenda, has abducted tens of thousands of children and adults to serve as...