Humanitarian Institute

Assessing the impacts of sufficient and reliable electricity in low-resource healthcare facilities

Health systems across sub-Saharan Africa often lack the electricity needed for lighting, medical, diagnostic, and sterilization equipment, and refrigeration. More than one billion people globally rely on facilities with no electricity or a highly unreliable supply. Using survey d...

How to write when you are the problem

Abstract Writing from inside the fire, this intervention refuses innocence, expertise, and redemption, asking what it means to keep telling stories from within academic, colonial, and institutional complicity when doing so is implicated in harm.

Classical humanitarianism in the wake of complex crises: the Case of Gaza

Since October 2023, humanitarianism has been questioned in the context of Gaza’s crisis, revealing critical defects in the implementation of principles and practices. This paper, therefore, examines the effectiveness of classical humanitarianism in Gaza as a complex crisis. By em...

A qualitative study exploring how an Emergency Medicine leadership programme was received in Ghana

Introduction Emergency Medicine (EM) is a developing specialty in several West African countries, where practitioners are increasingly assuming leadership roles despite limited training. The EM Leaders programme, originally designed for the UK context, offers leadership training...