“Crisis Mapping during Disaster and Humanitarian Crises” Nov. 6th, 12-1 in R108. Lunch provided!
Dr. Jennifer Chan an Associate faculty member of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and member of the Crisis Dynamics Program. She is also the Director of Global Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Her projects and research focuses on crisis mapping and helping organizations integrate technology and new information flows into humanitarian programming. She collaborates with humanitarian, technology and volunteer groups to help them learn about the outcomes and impact of their collaborative efforts through evaluation and research. Her project work and research efforts translate into training emerging practitioners in humanitarian technologies. She is the lead instructor of humanitarian technologies education module at the Humanitarian Studies Course.
Jennifer has worked and collaborated with NGOs and UN agencies for the past seven years. She has provided public health technical support to organizations such as Oxfam America, the American Red Cross, the International Rescue Committee and the World Health Organization. She also collaborates with organizations involved in reshaping humanitarian information management including Ushahidi, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, and the Northwestern Humanitarian and Non-Profit Logistics Group. She co-authored the Disaster 2.0 report that describes the challenges and future of information sharing and technology in humanitarian crisis.
After completing her undergraduate studies at Columbia University, she pursued additional degrees in medicine and public health at Northwestern University School of Medicine and Tulane School of Public Health. She completed her emergency medicine training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program followed by an International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
