Faculty

Astier M. Almedom

Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health

Recent Publications:

“Resilience is not the absence of PTSD anymore than health is the absence of disease,” (co-author) Journal of Loss and Trauma (2007); “Social Capital and Mental Health: An updated interdisciplinary review of primary evidence,” (co-author) (2007); . Social Capital and Health (2007); “Use of ‘Sense of Coherence (SOC)’ scale to measure resilience in Eritrea: Interrogating both the data and the scale,” (co-author). Journal of Biosocial Science (2007); “Re-reading Eritrea’s short and long-rigged history 1941-1952: Back to the future?,” Nordic Journal of African Studies (2006); “’Hope’ makes sense in Eritrean sense of coherence, but “loser” does not,” (co-author) Journal of Loss and Trauma (2005); “Prolonged displacement may compromise resilience in Eritrean mothers,” (co-author) African Health Sciences (2005); “Social capital and mental health: An interdisciplinary review of primary evidence,” Social Science and Medicine (2005); “ 'Resilience’, ‘hardiness’, ‘sense of coherence’, and ‘posttraumatic growth’: All paths leading to ‘light at the end of the tunnel’?,” Journal of Loss and Trauma (2005); “Factors that mitigate war-induced anxiety and mental distress,” Journal of Biosocial Science (2004); “Mental Well-being in settings of ‘Complex Emergency’: An Overview,” (co-author) Journal of Biosocial Science (2004); “Participatory hygiene evaluation: a means to an end, or an end in itself?,” Waterlines: International Journal of Appropriate Technologies for Water Supply and Sanitation (2003); “Examining maternal psychosocial well being in Eritrea: Application of participatory methods and tools of investigation and analysis in ‘complex emergency’ settings,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2003).