Researching the Impact ofAttacks on Healthcare




The impact of attacks against healthcare in armed conflict is an intractable and priority knowledge gap despite multiple initiatives that have improved data collection about these attacks. Better understanding could help promote the resilience of health programs, enable more effective mitigation measures, inform accountability mechanisms, and advance advocacy efforts.




News
New Blog Post
RIAH PI Larissa Fast summarises our recent article on using data to create change in this “ICTs for Development” blog post.

Report Published for the IPI
RIAH Researcher Rohini Haar collaborated on a recently published report for the International Peace Institute on improving data collection on attacks on healthcare. Click for the full report.

Report published: Crisis in Afghanistan
RIAH Co-I, Prof Rubenstein, along with other colleagues at Hopkins recently wrote and published this important report on the maternal and child health crisis facing Afghanistan. Click for the full report.

Conference Presentation
Co-Investigator Bertrand Taithe presented on Intimacy and the
Gendering of War: Women’s experiences of insurgency war (1996-2006) in Nepal. Click to see the full conference programme.

Publication: Joint Health Staff Survey in South Sudan
RIAH partners Insecurity Insight collaborated on this study which aims to identify incidents of violence as experienced by health care staff since 2021 and to better understand health workers perspectives on causes, impact and prevention and response.

Event: Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks – Attacks During a Pandemic
On 11th May 2022 Insecurity Insight and RIAH co-hosted a session at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks giving a practical view on the principles of risk sharing.

Op-Ed Published in Mother Jones
RIAH Consortium member Leonard Rubenstein recently published ‘Russia Has a Long, Cruel History of Attacking Hospitals. Maybe This Time Its Leaders Will Be Prosecuted’

Myanmar – One Year of Targeted Violence against Health Care
Consortium partners Insecurity Insight publish a special report on violence against healthcare in Myanmar – one year on from the military coup.

Syrian Civil War Publication
Consortium members Rohini Haar and Len Rubenstein, along with others, authored this paper giving an overview of attacks against civilian infrastructure during the Syrian civil war 2012–2018.

Afghanistan needs international support. But what kind?
Paper written by RIAH consortium members Karl Blanchet and Bertrand Taithe is published in The New Humanitarian, 13th September 2021

New Blog Post
RIAH PI Larissa Fast summarises our recent article on using data to create change in this “ICTs for Development” blog post.

Report Published for the IPI
RIAH Researcher Rohini Haar collaborated on a recently published report for the International Peace Institute on improving data collection on attacks on healthcare. Click for the full report.

Report published: Crisis in Afghanistan
RIAH Co-I, Prof Rubenstein, along with other colleagues at Hopkins recently wrote and published this important report on the maternal and child health crisis facing Afghanistan. Click for the full report.

Conference Presentation
Co-Investigator Bertrand Taithe presented on Intimacy and the
Gendering of War: Women’s experiences of insurgency war (1996-2006) in Nepal. Click to see the full conference programme.

Publication: Joint Health Staff Survey in South Sudan
RIAH partners Insecurity Insight collaborated on this study which aims to identify incidents of violence as experienced by health care staff since 2021 and to better understand health workers perspectives on causes, impact and prevention and response.

Event: Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks – Attacks During a Pandemic
On 11th May 2022 Insecurity Insight and RIAH co-hosted a session at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks giving a practical view on the principles of risk sharing.

Op-Ed Published in Mother Jones
RIAH Consortium member Leonard Rubenstein recently published ‘Russia Has a Long, Cruel History of Attacking Hospitals. Maybe This Time Its Leaders Will Be Prosecuted’

Myanmar – One Year of Targeted Violence against Health Care
Consortium partners Insecurity Insight publish a special report on violence against healthcare in Myanmar – one year on from the military coup.

Syrian Civil War Publication
Consortium members Rohini Haar and Len Rubenstein, along with others, authored this paper giving an overview of attacks against civilian infrastructure during the Syrian civil war 2012–2018.

Afghanistan needs international support. But what kind?
Paper written by RIAH consortium members Karl Blanchet and Bertrand Taithe is published in The New Humanitarian, 13th September 2021

RIAH Research Brief 01/2023
‘Gendered health impacts of civil war in Nepal’: The latest in a series of briefs intended to make findings from our research available to a broader audience.

Afghanistan Interview Guides
Here we provide the interview guides used in our Afghanistan case study “Assessing the impact of attacks on healthcare on health workers in Afghanistan”.

Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare
RIAH Researchers Prof Larissa Fast and Dr Roisin Read published a new paper in which they investigate the (non-straightforward) relationship between data, action and change processes.

Myanmar – May 2022 Update
This report gives an update on violence against or obstruction of healthcare in Myanmar as of May 2022.

SHCC Report 2021
As a part of our data collection on instances of attacks, partners at SHCC produce an annual report on violence against health workers, facilities, and transport in conflict areas around the world.

Ukraine monitoring May 2022 onwards
The latest data on incidents in Ukraine can now be seen on the Project Data page of our website where there are also links to the dataset, interactive map, and PDFs of the latest figures.

Ukraine – 05 April Update
This report updates the figures on incidents in Ukraine up until 05 April 2022 based on Insecurity Insight data. The report analyses 108 reported incidents for which we have details to provide analysis.

Ukraine – 25 March Update
This report updates the figures on incidents in Ukraine up until 21 March 2022 based on Insecurity Insight data. The report analyses 83 reported incidents for which we have details to provide analysis.

Ukraine – 12 March Update
This report updates the figures on incidents in Ukraine up until 12 March 2022. It includes statements of concern from a number of medical organisations.

Sudan – 28 Feb Update
This report records the incidents that Insecurity Insight has documented between 26 January – 28 February 2022.

RIAH Research Brief 01/2023
‘Gendered health impacts of civil war in Nepal’: The latest in a series of briefs intended to make findings from our research available to a broader audience.

Afghanistan Interview Guides
Here we provide the interview guides used in our Afghanistan case study “Assessing the impact of attacks on healthcare on health workers in Afghanistan”.

Using Data to Create Change? Interrogating the Role of Data in Ending Attacks on Healthcare
RIAH Researchers Prof Larissa Fast and Dr Roisin Read published a new paper in which they investigate the (non-straightforward) relationship between data, action and change processes.

Myanmar – May 2022 Update
This report gives an update on violence against or obstruction of healthcare in Myanmar as of May 2022.

SHCC Report 2021
As a part of our data collection on instances of attacks, partners at SHCC produce an annual report on violence against health workers, facilities, and transport in conflict areas around the world.

Ukraine monitoring May 2022 onwards
The latest data on incidents in Ukraine can now be seen on the Project Data page of our website where there are also links to the dataset, interactive map, and PDFs of the latest figures.

Ukraine – 05 April Update
This report updates the figures on incidents in Ukraine up until 05 April 2022 based on Insecurity Insight data. The report analyses 108 reported incidents for which we have details to provide analysis.

Ukraine – 25 March Update
This report updates the figures on incidents in Ukraine up until 21 March 2022 based on Insecurity Insight data. The report analyses 83 reported incidents for which we have details to provide analysis.

Ukraine – 12 March Update
This report updates the figures on incidents in Ukraine up until 12 March 2022. It includes statements of concern from a number of medical organisations.

Sudan – 28 Feb Update
This report records the incidents that Insecurity Insight has documented between 26 January – 28 February 2022.

Consortium
Our group is comprised of leading academics and data experts. We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers including social scientists, epidemiologists, historians, and experts in international relations, global health and law.

Professor Larissa Fast
Principal Investigator

Professor Karl Blanchet
Co-Investigator

Professor Leonard Rubenstein
Co-Investigator

Professor Bertrand Taithe
Co-Investigator

Christina Wille
Director of Insecurity Insight

Dr Rohini Haar
Research Fellow

Dr Roisin Read
Research Fellow

Audrey Mahieu
Research Fellow

Dr Stephanie Rinaldi
Programme Manager