ATHA’s Anaide Nahikian recently sat down with Dr. Ronak Patel, founder and director of the Urbanization and Crises Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Dr. Patel is also Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a practicing attending physician in emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
This discussion centers on Dr. Patel’s research into the challenges for humanitarian intervention presented by rapid urbanization, and the protection of vulnerable populations in urban settings.
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Resource collections
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience