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Why preserve humanitarian archives?

Flora (Humanitarian Archivist) discusses the importance of saving humanitarian archives in the face of multiple threats to their survival. Flora Chatt

The history of Emergency Medical Teams: shaping norms and standards in humanitarian medicine

Alice outlines a new workpackage within the Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) project, exploring the history and development of Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) and the WHO’s EMT Initiative. Alice Robinson

Humanitarian Medicine and Photography

DHM postdoc Chimwemwe shares a longstanding interest in the uses and meanings of photography within humanitarian contexts. Chimwemwe Phiri

USAID Oral History Project

This new project aims to document and archive the experiences and opinions of USAID staff amidst one of the most significant crises facing humanitarian aid, memory, and data Courtney Stickland

A New Conversation on Non-Communicable Diseases

The chronic nature of crisis and the inadequacy of resources allocated to humanitarian operations can hardly be defined as new problems. Yet, it’s hard to... Costanza Torre

Oral History, Archive Making and Digital Preservation with the DHM and RIAH projects

In the face of archival silences (either intentional or incidental), historians and archivists can turn to oral history as a means of filling in the gaps. Admin Admin

Historicising state-NGO relations in global drug access campaigns: the case of the Bangladesh drug policy of 1982

What role do states, international organisations and NGOs play in disrupting the profit-driven logic of the global pharmaceutical marketplace? Maria Cullen

How should we situate primary health care in humanitarian medical history?

Here at the Developing Humanitarian Medicine project, we’ve been thinking about the meaning(s) of PHC over time. Janelle Winters

Does Humanitarian Medicine Exist?

Does humanitarian medicine truly exist, or is it merely medicine practiced in a humanitarian setting or with a humanitarian history? Bertrand Taithe