Humanitarian Aid

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A Hurricane Survivor Studies the Response in North Carolina

Inspired by firsthand experience, a Tufts expert on humanitarian disasters launches study to improve local and international relief efforts

November 4, 2024

Lloyd Williams has a conversation with a colleague while walking along a pathway.

Health

Restoring Sight in Patients at Home and Abroad

Lloyd Williams, M08, GBS08, developed a passion for providing care abroad while studying medicine at Tufts, and now travels regularly to developing nations to...

June 20, 2023

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Food & Nutrition

Hackathons Challenge Groups to Predict the Next Famine Using Data

For a third time, interdisciplinary teams will meet at Tufts to develop tools to help model and better forecast acute hunger crises such as famines

May 16, 2023

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Global Affairs

A Look at Life After Early Marriage and Displacement

Feinstein International Center researchers are working to support Syrian and Yazidi women who were both married early and displaced due to conflict.

March 31, 2023

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Campus Life

Tufts Students Urge Public to Support Earthquake Victims

Students and alumni with connections to Turkey and Syria have been focused on relief efforts. Now they are calling on Americans to do more

February 15, 2023

Otolaryngologists Ameer Shah (in the Patriots cap), A07, M13, and Jagdish Dhingra, both faculty at Tufts University School of Medicine, performed surgery on a patient in Rwanda.

Health Care

Helping Patients Overcome the Shame of Goiters in Rwanda

Faculty from Tufts University School of Medicine have made more than a dozen trips to perform lifesaving surgeries and heal the physical and social effects of...

February 6, 2023

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Food & Nutrition

A Quarter Century Tackling the World’s Toughest Problems

The Feinstein International Center marks 25 years working on hunger and humanitarian aid through a powerful, multidisciplinary combination of research, field...

October 20, 2022