Our Research

RIAH researchers examined the impact of attacks on healthcare in three conflict-affected prefectures—Ouaka, Haute-Kotto, and Vakaga—between 2016 and 2020, assessing both immediate and longer-term disruptions.

What works and who knows? The importance of community and health worker perspectives in defining solutions to attacks on healthcare. The authors argue existing methods can help identify solutions, facilitating response strategies.

The RIAH team have published this paper on humanitarian norms and the role of states. It examines the successes, failures, and lessons for protection of healthcare.

This article explores the issue of gender-based medical care and wartime violence during the Maoist insurgency and the Nepalese civil war (1996-2006).

RIAH consortium members publish a commentary piece with other colleagues on how the absence of respect for existing safeguards for healthcare workers in Gaza is an integral aspect of the intentional disintegration of the Palestinian healthcare system.

RIAH researchers present the qualitative study on attacks
on healthcare in Ouaka, Haute-Kotto, and Vakaga prefectures of the Central African
Republic, 2016–2020

RIAH colleagues publish on the qualitative study of healthcare workers’ experiences of violence and resistance after the 2021 Myanmar coup d’etat

RIAH colleagues discuss women’s experiences of insurgent warfare, with special reference to the conflict in Nepal between 1996 and 2006.

This issue features two papers from the RIAH consortium: one on history writing and attacks on healthcare, and a second on our case study in Nepal.

The study aimed to measure how these attacks affected health care accessibility for pregnant women and children under five, employing a mixed-methods approach. The report is also available in French via IRC's website.

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.