Lancet Series 2014: Health in the Arab World

This UCL-Lancet Commission report shares evidence-based approaches to inform public discourse and policy on migration, a process touching more than one billion lives in 2018 and deeply rooted in structural and political factors. Current polarizing discourse condemning migration has created far-reaching misunderstandings and misconceptions around migrants—people who often uphold economies, bolster social services, and contribute to health services in both origin and destination locations. The report is driven by five goals: providing the latest evidence…

This case study explores the experiences of three Manhattan-based hospitals during Superstorm Sandy in 2012. It focuses on decisions made by each institution, as Sandy approached, about whether to shelter-in-place or evacuate hundreds of medically fragile patients, and how each of the three hospitals took a different approach, informed by differing perceptions of risk and related factors. The case will be useful for public health students and administrators in understanding decision-making in settings of an…

This report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) discusses the reception and care of unaccompanied migrant and asylum-seeking children worldwide but focuses primarily on migrants coming to the U.S. There are an estimated 33 million international migrant children globally, 12.6 million of which are refugees and 1.5 million are asylum-seeking. Nearly 500,000 unaccompanied children sought protection in Europe or the U.S. This report is based on the founding of the Building Bridges Initiative and…