GEMA HTF's Humanitarian Research Series: Documenting Conflict with the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab

This webinar, part of the ongoing Humanitarian Research Series, is hosted by SAEM Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) Humanitarianism Task Force (HTF). It features Dr. Danielle (Dani) Poole, Associate Research Scientist and Affiliated Faculty at the Yale Institute of Global Health, and Mr. Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, in a discussion of their seminal research documenting conflict and war crimes in Ukraine and Sudan. They will discuss methodological approaches to remote sensing data collection and analysis in conflict settings and the policy implications of their work.
Moderators/Panelists

  • Danielle Poole, ScD, MPH

    Associate Research Scientist

    Yale School of Public Health

    Dr. Danielle (Dani) Poole is an epidemiologist and geospatial health researcher and Director of Health Research with the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab. She has lots of experience conducting humanitarian health research, with her work centered around measuring needs among populations affected by crises, with a focus on health during displacement, and developing novel research methods for complex settings. Dr. Poole completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Neukom Institute for Computational Science of Dartmouth College. She earned a ScD from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, an MPH from Brown University, and a BA from Seattle University.

  • Nathaniel Raymond

    Executive Director, Humanitarian Research Lab

    Yale School of Public Health

    Nathaniel Raymond is Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and a Lecturer in the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) at YSPH. He was formerly a Lecturer of Global Affairs at the Jackson School for Global Affairs from 2018 - 2022. His research interests focus on the health implications of forced displacement; methodologies for the assessment of large-scale disasters, including pandemics; and the human rights and human security implications of information communication technologies (ICTs) for vulnerable populations, particularly in the context of armed conflict. Previously, he was the founding Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2012 – 2018. From 2010 to 2012, he was Director of Operations for the George Clooney-founded Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI, which utilized high resolution satellite imagery to detect and document attacks on civilians in Sudan and South Sudan. Raymond was Director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights from 2008 – 2010, leading investigations into the role of US health professionals in the Bush Administration’s “enhanced” interrogation program.

Event Information

September 26, 2023 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM (Central Daylight Time)

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