Our Research

Results of our second study in Colombia show that impacts of attacks affect negatively the professional and personal life of the female workers and are aggravated by structural violence with little or no institutional response.

Have attacks on healthcare become the new normal? Colleagues from the RIAH consortium issue a public health call to action for armed conflicts before it is too late.

“There is a fear that you will be attacked just for the act of working in health”. In this publication, RIAH colleagues discuss our survey of experiences of violence against healthcare in Colombia.

'What do we Learn from the History of Attacks on Healthcare?': The latest in a series of briefs intended to make findings from our research available to a broader audience.

This article analyses how military attacks and instances of violence impacted on the psychological, emotional and physical health of those attending the wounded within the Hadfield Spears mobile unit in the second world war.

The authors compare two separate datasets compiled using publicly-available data revealing minimal overlap. The article aims to explain the reasons for the lack of overlap, to better understand the gaps and their implications.

'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.

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

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.

This study utilizes a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature to identify and understand relevant data about attacks on health in situations of conflict.

RIAH Methods Memo: Exploratory Analysis of Publicly Available Data on Attacks on Health in Colombia

This working paper addresses conceptual issues and methodological approaches to evaluating the wider and longer-term impact of attacks on healthcare in conflict.