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The Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre brings together over 200 researchers of different backgrounds from all three LSHTM faculties.

We focus on improving the health of populations affected by humanitarian crises through quality research, teaching, training and dissemination of objective, evidence-based information.

Mother bakes bread with children © UNHCR

Mother bakes bread with children © UNHCR

Practical guidance for camps

The targeted shielding approach aims to protect those most vulnerable from SARS-CoV-2 infection by helping them to live in dignity, safely and separately from the general population for an extended period of time.

COVID-19: Read our guidance on the shielding approach in camps
Jobar, Damascus - March 2020 © LensDimashqi

Jobar, Damascus - March 2020 © LensDimashqi

Displaced Syrian communities

COVID-19 prevention advice from the Syria Research Group (SyRG) for low-income OR displaced Syrian communities.

Download the advice (pdf)

Women Leaders in Health and Conflict initiative

We are excited to partner with King’s College London on the Women Leaders in Heath and Conflict (WLHC) initiative. The WLHC is a newly formed group of aspiring and established women working as researchers and practitioners within fragile and conflict-affected areas to challenge the status quo and enhance opportunities for women’s leadership.

Please make a gift to the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre

Please donate to support the Centre’s research focusing on health in humanitarian crises and conflict zones, such as Ukraine, Yemen, Lebanon and Mozambique, among others. 

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