Faculty Candidate Seminar: Open-Source Science as Humanitarian Service
Department and Center Event
Speaker Name: Nathan Morrow, Research Associate Professor at Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Department of International Health and Sustainable Development.Hosted by Department of International Health, Health Systems, and the Center for Humanitarian Health
The BSPH Department of International Health, alongside Health Systems, and the Center for Humanitarian Health is proud to present our first faculty candidate for our Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure Track) position in Humanitarian Health. Join us on September 2, 2022 from 12-1:30 p.m. for an engaging presentation and discussion! Followed by lunch from 1:30-2:30pm, meet with our candidate and other faculty members.
Seminar Registration:
- In person https://tinyurl.com/yc64b5n5
- Zoom: Register in advance for this meeting via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/bderdd8k
Seminar Description:
As the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reports humanitarian needs at the highest level ever in 2022, humanitarian access continues to be increasingly restricted with 141 aid workers killed in the previous year. To meet the growing needs of people whose livelihoods are disrupted and those displaced by conflict and climate change, consensus is growing for making transformational changes to humanitarian action. Part of that shift will be towards local actors managing more resources and taking broader responsibility. Localization and building resilience through more integrated projects at the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) nexus are transformational strategies already embraced by international donors and key humanitarian actors and networks. The role of the higher education institutions in both training the humanitarian workforce that were traditionally a pipeline providing capacity to international rather than local humanitarian organizations and in leading the research to provide an evidence base for humanitarian action will now also need to be transformed.
Dr. Nathan Morrow has more than 25-years of experience supporting research-based innovation and capacity development in leading humanitarian organizations. Two current research projects focus on the intersection of open-source science and environmental justice. He is also a learning partner for HDP resilience projects across the Sahel. The open-source community have traditionally been active supporters of humanitarian action. Dr. Morrow will discuss touchstone humanitarian information innovation and decision support related open science aspects of the Ushahidi Haiti Project, mobile Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping (mVAM) of the UN World Food Programme, and environmental security for the Global Environmental Facility. Highlighting practices that encourage open science digital humanitarian action and safeguard against technological colonialism, analysis of linkages between approaches to open-source science and empowering localized rights/justice-based action will be presented. Based in his on-going research with environmental justice communities on the Gulf Coast, Dr. Morrow will discuss the potential of adapting approaches of open-source science as a service (OSaaS) to inform emerging models for academic engagement in the future of humanitarian action.