Astier M. Almedom

Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health

Education:

BA (Hons) and MA in human sciences, and D.Phil. in biological anthropology, Oxford University.

Professional Activities:

Program Director, International Resilience Research and Policy/Practice (IRP), Tufts University, Institute for Global Leadership. Previous full-time positions held include Henry R. Luce Professorship in Science and Humanitariansim, Tufts University, School of Arts & Sciences; Senior Management, National Health Service (London, United Kingdom), full-time lectureship, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), and part-time tutor/advisor in quantitative methods, human ecology, and long essays (undergraduate research) in the Honours School of Human Sciences, University of Oxford.

Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership (inaugural Fellow); Humanitarian Accountability Partnership-International, Geneva (Independent Board Member); Society for Applied Anthropology (Sustaining Fellow); Editorial advisory board member: African Health Sciences and Waterlines.