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People are trekking under "blistering" heat to escape "horrific circumstances", the BBC is told. Nathaniel Raymond, head of the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, described "systematic destruction through arson of homes" and "aid facilities", adding that people who managed to escape Zamzam were on the road "dying of starvation".
- April 14, 2025Source: BBC
Assessing satellite images, a team of specialists with the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health in the U.S. said "this attack conservatively represents the most significant ground-based attack on Zamzam... since fighting erupted in the el-Fasher area in spring of 2024".
- April 09, 2025Source: The Seattle Times
A decision to stop U.S. emergency food aid to Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest and most war-ravaged countries, has humanitarian organizations concerned. Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, called the cuts “a potential extinction-level event” for two generations of progress in limiting the suffering of those caught in crises.
- April 09, 2025Source: Associated Press
U.S. officials reversed plans to cut off emergency food aid to several nations, but maintained them in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest and most war-ravaged countries. Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, called the cuts “a potential extinction-level event” for two generations of progress in limiting the suffering of those caught in crises.
- March 28, 2025Source: The New York Times
Lawmakers feared that a database on children taken by Russia was deleted when funding was stopped as part of President Trump’s foreign aid cuts.
- March 17, 2025
Overview of Yale HRL investigations into Russia's deportation, re-education, and placement of Ukraine's children.
- February 26, 2025Source: Science
Barred from Sudan during the ongoing civil war, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab try to monitor death and destruction from afar.
- February 25, 2025Source: Connecticut Public Radio
Today on Where We Live, we get an update on the ongoing humanitarian crisis happening in this region and hear from Ukrainian Americans in Connecticut.
- February 21, 2025Source: Yale Daily News
YSPH's Dr. Kaveh Khoshnood discusses how climate change exacerbates mental health stressors, especially among populations facing displacement, food insecurity, and economic instability due to environmental shocks.
- February 13, 2025Source: The Progressive Magazine
As Sudan’s brutal war between its military junta’s Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues into its second year, the resulting violence has laid siege to hospitals across the country on a catastrophic scale. Danielle Poole, director of research for the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, explains what's happening.