Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HA/DR): HRP Activities

Joint Professor Hank Brightman as he discusses the magnitude and complexity of recent disasters and that they have dramatically altered the generally accepted roles for militaries engaged in international humanitarian response.

Join Professor Hank Brightman, director of the Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Program within the College of Maritime Operational Warfare, as he discusses COVID-19: Response Challenges from U.S. and International Perspectives as part of the Newport Lecture Series of the Naval War College Foundation.

Hosted by Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and the U.S. Naval War College’s Humanitarian Response Program with support from the R. Dudley Harrington, Jr. Charitable Foundation, the US State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, and the U.S. Naval War College Foundation. This symposium will present cutting edge public health, social science, and legal research examining key questions regarding humanitarian civil-military coordination.

Join Professor Hank Brightman from the U.S. Naval War College's HRP as he speaks about the design, execution and findings of Urban Outbreak 2019, and makes comparisons to America’s current response to COVID-19.

Hosted by Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and the U.S. Naval War College’s Humanitarian Response Program with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This symposium presents cutting edge public health, social science, and legal research examining key questions regarding humanitarian civil-military coordination.

Join Professor Hank Brightman from the U.S. Naval War College's HRP addressing the topic "Foreign Humanitarian Assistance, Disaster Relief and COVID-19 Response" before taking questions.

Join professors Brittany Card and Tony Fox from the U.S. Naval War College's HRP addressing the topic of "Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response" before taking questions.

The “Urban Outbreak Online Simulation” finds players responding to a notional disease outbreak in a fictional developing nation. Building on the work of the 2019 Urban Outbreak wargame, the simulation requires players to identify key stakeholders and actions to respond to a rapidly unfolding public health crisis. Informing players of the complexity of conditions and better preparing future leaders in decision making in humanitarian response operations, the single-player game is available free-of-charge for the public to try.