Michael Vanrooyen

Biographic Data

ID1405423
NAMEMichael Vanrooyen
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEVanrooyen
SIGNATUREVANROOYEN M
AFFILIATIONSMD, MPH is the Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School United States
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Exposure to violent conflict and environmental conservation behaviors in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo

    Open AccessJocelyn Kelly, Danielle N Roth et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Environment2022References: 38

  • Stigmatisation and rejection of survivors of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Open AccessKatherine Albutt, Jocelyn Kelly et al.ARTICLEDisasters2017Cited by: 10References: 19

    Studies report that between 6 per cent and 29 per cent of survivors of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are rejected by their families and communities. This research project was designed to provide insights into survivors' experiences of stigmatisation and rejection. Surveys were conducted with 310 women as they sought psychosocial services in eastern DRC. In total, 44.3 per cent of women reported suffering reject…

  • They have embraced a different behaviour’

    Beth J Maclin, Beth Maclin et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2015

    The decades-long conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has resulted in major changes to local economies, strained social networks and insecurity. This environment forces many to pursue unconventional and, at times, socially stigmatised avenues for income. This paper explores the ways in which individuals in eastern DRC engage in, and are affected by, the commoditisation of sex within the context of decades of violent conflict…

  • The Sphere Project

    Open AccessHelen Ouyang, Michael Vanrooyen et al.ARTICLEPrehospital and Disaster Medicine2009

    Since the Sphere Project was launched in 1997, it has sought to integrate principles of human rights norms with adherence to technical standards. While the Sphere Handbook has evolved as both a field tool and a resource for articulating human rights, it does not fully offer a rights-based approach to humanitarian assistance. In the handbook's current edition, its Humanitarian Charter asserts and affirms human rights principles, but the technical …

  • Employment of a livelihoods analysis to define genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan

    Michael Vanrooyen, Michael J Vanrooyen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Genocide Research2008

    In Darfur, Sudan, since March 2003, between 170,000 and 255,000 non-Arab Darfurians have been killed in a genocidal campaign waged by the Government of Sudan. Diplomats, humanitarian aid workers, medical professionals, academics, human rights activists, journalists and legal scholars have engaged in vigorous and significant debate about whether these killings and related assaults constitute the crime of genocide, as defined in the UN Genocide Con…

  • An Earthquake Disaster in Turkey

    Open AccessYaron Bar‐dayan, David Mankuta et al.ARTICLEDisasters2000Cited by: 3

    On 17 August 1999 at 3:04 a.m., an earthquake of 7.4 magnitude (Richter scale) struck the Marmara region in Turkey. The city of Adapazari suffered 2,680 fatalities with approximately 5,300 injured. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) field hospital arrived at Adapazari, on day four after the quake. The team consisted of 102 personnel. The field hospital acted as a secondary referral centre. A total of 1,205 patients were treated in the field hospita…