Disasters

Internally displaced people use a boat to cross a flooded area at Dadu in Sindh province, Pakistan. October 27, 2022. Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images

Lessons from Pakistan’s Floods

Residents take refuge at a Salinas, Puerto Rico high school on Sept. 19 after Hurricane Fiona slammed the island. Jose Jimenez/Getty Images

No More Bandages: Let’s Rebuild Puerto Rico’s Health System as a Cornerstone of Disaster Preparedness

Medyka border crossing, Poland.

What Makes Ukraine’s Refugee Crisis So Different

A man gives a bag of rice to a crowd of earthquake victims gathered for the distribution of food and water at the "4 Chemins" crossroads in Les Cayes, Haiti on August 20, 2021.

No ‘Silver Lining’: The Media’s Disaster Narrative in Haiti and Beyond

A Xilotepec cemetery worker in Mexico City prepares to receive corpses of COVID-19 victims. May 8, 2020. Image: Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty

Top Global Health Moments of 2020

A technician handles samples from truck drivers testing for COVID-19 at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, May 14, 2020. Image: Brian Ongoro/AFP/Getty

New Dashboard Aims to Democratize COVID-19 Data

Young women model masks worn during America’s Dust Bowl disaster, circa 1935. Image: Bert Garai/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty

COVID-19’s Best Analog Is the 1930s Dust Bowl, Not the 1918 Flu

People take shelter after flood waters from Hurricane Harvey inundated Houston, Texas. August 29, 2017. Image: Joe Raedle/Getty

Disaster Relief in the Face of COVID-19

Private sector solution: A dog team delivers antitoxin during Nome, Alaska’s 1925 diphtheria outbreak. Image: Bettmann/Getty

Fragile States Need Private Sector Allies

Children outside a nursery at Chonsam Cooperative Farm on August 22, 2018 in Wonsan, North Korea. Image: Carl Court/Getty Images

How Sanctions Hurt North Korea’s Children

Goodwill ambassador for UNHCR Emtithal Mahmoud delivered a captivating spoken-word performance for the GHN LIVE at Stanford audience on April 10, 2019.

GHN LIVE at Stanford: Awakening Empathy for Refugees

A displaced Syrian girl waves to theA Syrian girl waves to the camera at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the border with Turkey in Idlib province in northwestern Syria on Feb. 17, 2019. Image: Aaref Wata/AFP/Getty camera at a camp in Kafr Lusin near the border with Turkey in Idlib province in northwestern Syria on February 17, 2019. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP) (Photo credit should read AAREF WATAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Rise with Refugees: A GHN LIVE Event with the Stanford Refugee Research Project