Projects
Culture, Resilience, and Health
‘Culture’ is one of the most understudied dimensions of resilience as a pathway to health. Our program examines resilience across cultures, integrating qualitative and quantitative research to connect the dots between cultural values, socio-political structures, family-level resilience, and individual health outcomes. Research projects in Afghanistan, Jordan, and Sierra Leone focus specifically on family-level resilience.
Humanitarian Interventions
We work to build sustained partnerships between researchers, policy-makers, humanitarian practitioners, funders, community-based organizations, and the media to better serve people in crisis settings. We help set a collaborative agenda for robust science, culturally-relevant practices, and effective programming, and reflect on research insights and best practices
Peacebuilding Across Generations
Our work also examines resilience-building approaches to peacebuilding. Attention to structural and social resilience helps to bring about a systemic transformation of political, economic, and social systems and build the foundations of sustained recovery to complex crises.
Violence and Health
Our work examines the impacts of violence on physical and mental health, and the role of resilience, across generations.