Humanitarian Aid

Critical Choices: Assessing Family & Team Risk

It is important to understand the unusual types of decisions people are forced to make in response to a crisis. These are not typically decisions people were making just weeks before the crisis hit. Not all of these are risk decisions; some are moral or ethical in...

Building Resilience Through Change; Navigating Transitions in Humanitarian Aid Work & Disaster Response

We live in a world where nothing under heaven is constant, except change. When we are returning from the field, leaving for the field again, or entering a new realm of life or work, there is always an onslaught of change. But change does not equal transition. Change...

Leadership Communication in Crisis

One of the deadliest viruses on earth had now almost literally arrived on his doorstep. He had received a call from one of the docs on shift- it was confirmed. The patient that had just arrived in the outdoor, covered triage area around the corner from his house,...