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Saving lives through research, education and empowerment 2017–2020 STRATEGIC PLAN Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health | 1 |
VISION To pursue new knowledge and disseminate this learning to save lives and reduce human suffering and other consequences of humanitarian emergencies and disasters.
p Refugees at Budapest train station, Hungary.
2015. UNHCR/Paul Spiegel
CONTENTS
Strategy at a Glance | 5 |
Introduction | 6 |
Strategic Objectives & Enabling Actions:
Research, Educate, Empower | 10 |
q Red Cross personnel transport a refugee
rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by the Italian
Strategic Approaches | 14 | coastguard, Italy. 2016. UNHCR/Patrick Russo
Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health | 3 |
p Somali refugees gathering around water point,
Ethiopia. 2011. UNHCR/Paul Spiegel
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STRATEGIC
APPROACHES
I.
Partnership: Expanded
partnerships within Johns Hopkins
University and among numerous
other organizations, governments
and academic institutions will be
STRATEGIC actively sought.
OBJECTIVES
I. II.
Management and Governance:
STRATEGY
AT A GLANCE
Undertake innovative Clear structures with explicit
research in humanitarian health expectations and incentives will
science to discover and apply be put in place for faculty and
evidence-based strategies non-faculty involvement as well
for prevention, preparedness, as for Advisory and Technical
response, recovery and Committees.
III.
reintegration.
II.
Educate and train individuals,
Capacity: Adequate human
resources and financial capacity
governments and organizations according to an internal action
on the latest theories and plan with measurable targets will
best practice approaches of be needed to achieve the strategic
humanitarian health science to objectives.
IV.
allow for their evidence-based
and practical application.
III.
Empower individuals,
Communication and Advocacy:
Strong communication through a
variety of mechanisms including
communities, organizations social media will be implemented
and governments to practically to advocate for evidence-based
apply skills and expertise gained and human rights policies both
through research and education. domestically and internationally.
Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health | 5 |
q Afghan mother with her young child, Afghanistan. 2011. JHU/Gilbert Burnham
INTRODUCTION
DEFINITIONS DISASTER: A serious disruption of the
functioning of a community or a society
or authority that represent a critical threat
to the health safety, security or wellbeing of
causing widespread human, material, communities over a wide area, which require
economic or environmental losses which a coordinated national or international
exceed the ability of the affected community response that goes beyond the capacity of
or society to cope using its own resources. the authorities or any other single entity.
(International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction) HUMANITARIAN HEALTH SCIENCE:
Multidisciplinary field of study that discovers
DURABLE SOLUTIONS: The three durable and applies knowledge from public health,
solutions are voluntary repatriation, local biomedical science, social and behavioral
integration and resettlement. (United Nations science, political science and human rights to
High Commissioner for Refugees) humanitarian settings.
GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY: Capacity to HUMANITARIAN-DEVELOPMENT NEXUS:
protect the world’s nations and populations The connection between humanitarian
from factors that threaten public health, such and development organizations that
as infectious diseases, humanitarian crises work in concert to address humanitarian
and the growing burden of noncommunicable requirements while taking into account
diseases. current and future development needs.
HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY: A serious JUST-IN-TIME TRAINING: Training that
event or events resulting from internal or imparts necessary knowledge and skills for
external conflict and/or natural disaster in immediate application in specific contexts
part of or all of a country or region where and evolving situations.
there is considerable breakdown of systems
| 6 | Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health
The Johns Hopkins Center Humanitarian contexts refers mental health as well as nutrition
for Humanitarian Health (the to a wide range of settings and and food security. These sectors
Center) is a unique Johns Hopkins situations that includes conflicts, are interpreted in a broad sense
University collaboration of the natural disasters, infectious disease that avoids a siloed approach and
Bloomberg School of Public outbreaks as well as mixed migration. considers other important issues
Health, the School of Medicine and For the Center, the various stages such as the resilience of affected
the School of Nursing. It draws of humanitarian contexts include individuals and communities, the
upon a variety of disciplines and preparedness, acute emergency, global health security agenda and the
sectors, including epidemiology, protracted emergencies, durable humanitarian-development nexus.
demography, emergency and solutions, reconstruction, post
disaster medicine, health systems conflict/recovery and reintegration. The Center’s focus rests on the multi-
management, communicable The Center’s focus on affected disciplinary field of humanitarian
and non-communicable diseases, persons in humanitarian contexts health science, which studies and
nutrition and food security, extends to non-displaced persons, applies a wide range of disciplines
environmental engineering, displaced persons (refugees and in humanitarian settings including
political science and human rights. internally displaced persons) and the public health, biomedical science,
The Center collaborates with surrounding national populations as socio-behavioral science, political
a variety of partners including well as to responders themselves. science and human rights.
national and international non- These persons may be in urban or
governmental organizations rural areas, in camps or outside of
(NGOs) and community-based camps and in low-, middle- and
organizations (CBOs), United Nations high-income countries anywhere in
agencies, bilateral and multilateral the world.
organizations, and governmental
agencies, as well as partner research All humanitarian emergencies may
institutions on field-based research, be categorized as disasters, yet
training and humanitarian projects. not all disasters are humanitarian
emergencies. Emergency/disaster
Johns Hopkins University has medicine has evolved as a discipline
an international reputation for separate from that of humanitarian
excellence in research, education action. Our strategy therefore refers
and training. It boasts a global to both “humanitarian emergencies”
outreach with a multitude of field- and “disasters.”
based faculty and projects. The
University’s scholarly expertise Health is interpreted broadly,
in many disciplines, together applying the World Health
with its global and influential Organization’s definition: “health is
alumni network, are resources a state of complete physical, mental
for extensive partnership and and social well-being and not merely
advocacy opportunities involving the absence of disease or infirmity.”
U.S. policymakers, legislators The Center currently addresses
and Washington, D.C.-based a wide range of public health
organizations as well as governments sectors that include communicable
and non-government actors around diseases including epidemics, non-
the world. communicable diseases including
Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health | 7 |
Life’s most persistent and urgent question
is, “What are you doing for others?”
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, CLERGYMAN, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE
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p Returnees in South Kivu participating in a food
security and nutrition survey, Democratic Republic
of Congo. 2016. JHU/Jillian Emerson
Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health | 9 |
I.
Undertake innovative research
in humanitarian health science
employing a continuous
improvement approach to improve
prevention, preparedness, response,
recovery and reintegration.
ENABLING ACTIONS
• Continue the Center’s strong focus
on health systems, communicable
diseases, mental health, nutrition
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES & and food security, human rights
(including protection from human
ENABLING ACTIONS: trafficking and gender-based
violence), and measurement
RESEARCH, EDUCATE, EMPOWER methods including surveys,
surveillance, monitoring and
evaluation.
• Expand to other areas such as
humanitarian leadership, cash
transfers, innovative health
financing, cost efficiency and
effectiveness, adaptive technology,
humanitarian-development nexus,
non-communicable diseases
beyond mental health, global
health security and resettled
refugees.
• Coordinate, plan and submit multi-
year large-scale strategic domestic
and international proposals
involving various schools of Johns
Hopkins University and other
p Internally displaced Azerbaijanis get their eyes
tested by Japanese optometrists working with partners that will lead to a wide
UNHCR, Azerbaijan. 2016. UNHCR/Andrew McConnell
range of innovative projects.
| 10 | Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health• Collaborate with a wide range of
partners to define and shape a
global evidence-based research
agenda according to need while
practitioners, taking into account
their travel restrictions, financial
situations, and needs to continue
working while studying. Possible
III.
Empower individuals, communities,
taking into account cost and organizations and governments to
formats include but are not limited
prioritization. practically apply skills and expertise
to online certificates and master’s
gained through research and
degrees, massive open online
• Develop priority research relation- education.
courses, short courses, seminars
ships with academic institutions, and webinars.
particularly in designated low- and ENABLING ACTIONS
middle-income countries as well as • Provide audience-appropriate
various domestic and international trainings to organizations • Operationalize research outcomes
NGOs and CBOs. (including but not limited to and knowledge gained from
international and national NGOs, practice, education and training
II.
CBOs, academic institutions, United into humanitarian action.
Nations agencies, multilateral
and bilateral organizations,
• Train a cadre of well-educated
Educate and train individuals, donors, and the private sector)
professionals with managerial and
governments and organizations on and governments to provide
leadership capacity to support
the latest theories and best practice knowledge, practical skills and
organizations operating in
approaches of humanitarian health capacity according to their needs
humanitarian settings.
science to allow for their evidence- and specific contexts, including
based and practical application. just-in-time trainings. • Develop and implement platforms
using evolving technology to
ENABLING ACTIONS • Emphasize practical application of
provide current information and
theory and practice for different
support to humanitarian field
• Provide current concepts, contexts such as leveraging
practitioners.
information, data and practices, technological tools and platforms
with the ability to analyze and to provide information in remote • Advocate with governments,
make recommendations, to and insecure settings for delivery particularly the U.S. government,
students and practitioners, using of essential just-in-time training. to adapt humanitarian policies and
suitable pedagogical formats priorities according to evidence
(including blended active learning) • Develop priority research
and need.
to reach as many persons as relationships with academic
possible. institutions, particularly in
designated low- and middle-
• Explore and implement a range income countries as well as various
of educational formats accessible domestic and international NGOs
and attractive to domestic and and CBOs.
international students and
Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health | 11 || 12 | Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health
The philosophies of one age have become
the absurdities of the next, and the
foolishness of yesterday has become
the wisdom of tomorrow.
WILLIAM OSLER
PHYSICIAN, EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR, AND ONE OF
THE FOUNDING PROFESSORS OF JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
p Afghan children, Afghanistan. 2011.
JHU/Gilbert Burnham
Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health | 13 |I.
Partnership: Partnerships are
essential to the Center’s current and
future success. Within the Johns
Hopkins University, the Center is
currently a collaboration among
t Afghan boy with camel, Afghanistan. 2006. the Bloomberg School of Public
JHU/Krishna Rao
Health, the School of Medicine and
the School of Nursing. There are
plans to expand to other Hopkins
schools as well as its numerous
other centers and institutes. The
Center partners with a broad range
of actors in its research, education
STRATEGIC APPROACHES and empowerment strategic
objectives, including a diverse range
of government, United Nations
agencies, international organizations,
domestic and international NGOs
and CBOs, foundations and donors.
Hopkins faculty undertake field-
based research in varied settings. We
will pursue more decentralized local
partnerships to give our students
increased access to field projects
and our researchers new avenues for
collaboration with local organizations,
government officials and, most
importantly, affected populations
worldwide. We will also seek
partnerships with the private sector
as it becomes more prominent in
humanitarian action, as well as with
academic and research institutions
in the U.S. and internationally to
extend the reach of our research and
education resources in humanitarian
settings, creating synergies and
powers of scale.
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Management and Governance:
funds will be secured to support
effective administration, dedicated
student and faculty time, travel,
communication and outreach. The
The Center will be composed of core
strong and influential Johns Hopkins
faculty, center faculty, and affiliates
alumni network will be actively
(the latter are not Hopkins faculty),
sought to facilitate the achievement
each with a clearly defined role.
of Center objectives.
There will be an Advisory Committee
IV.
and a Technical Committee, each
with clear terms of reference.
The Center will require and seek
core funding to ensure strong Communication and Advocacy:
management (see capacity section The Center for Humanitarian Health
below). As the Center expands, will develop a communications
the need for more expertise and strategy for reaching its various
support will be necessary for support constituents in a variety of media,
functions of communications, grant including social media, to disseminate
writing and resource administration. news of projects, programs and
research results effectively. Through
III.
Capacity: For the Center to achieve
our communications channels we will
also advocate for evidence-based
human rights policies domestically
and internationally. Availability of
its vision and strategic objectives, it
the full range of Center academic
requires adequate human resources
offerings—courses, trainings,
and financial capacity that will
seminars and webinars—will be
progressively increase. Working
communicated to reach as many
with the University and the Center’s
persons as possible, working with
Advisory Committee, Johns Hopkins
partners to choose the right methods
Center for Humanitarian Health will
and tools to reach first responders
develop an internal action plan with
and other humanitarian workers
clear goals and targets following
to improve their preparedness,
the three strategic objectives. To
response and recovery efforts.
pursue the expanded objectives
Similarly, we will enhance
described above, more doctoral and
communications with affected
postdoctoral students and faculty
populations, not only to improve their
will be needed. Grants to support
health awareness but also to enable
training, scholarships, fellowships
us to listen to and learn from these
and research will be pursued in a way
individuals and communities.
that reflects the Center’s vision and
objectives. Sufficient Center core
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