Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) is a Harvard University-wide center involving multiple entities within the Harvard community that provide expertise in public health, medicine, social science, management, and other disciplines to promote evidence-based approaches to humanitarian assistance.

The mission of the Initiative is to relieve human suffering in war and disaster by advancing the science and practice of humanitarian response worldwide. HHI fosters interdisciplinary collaboration in order to:

• Improve the effectiveness of humanitarian strategies for relief, protection and prevention;
• Instill human rights principles and practices in these strategies;
• Educate and train the next generation of humanitarian leaders.