Tag: Stephanie Kayden

  • Nation & World

    In the cold and rain, a sprawling lesson on caring

    About 250 faculty, students, and volunteers descended on Massachusetts’ Harold Parker State Forest last weekend for a disaster simulation aimed to prepare students studying humanitarian disaster response for the real thing.

    5 minutes
    Participants learn to treat injuries in a humanitarian disaster simulation.
  • Nation & World

    A taste of danger

    Students in humanitarian relief got a taste of crisis during a three-day simulation at Harold Parker State Forest.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Widespread trauma

    Members of the Harvard community responded to the Boston Marathon attacks and offered thoughts about both the physical and mental injuries they caused.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A humanitarian comes home

    Harvard Medical School Instructor Stephanie Kayden’s educational life came full circle this semester, when she taught a humanitarian studies course in Emerson Hall, where, as an undergraduate philosophy concentrator she honed her own reasoning skills years ago.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In praise of ordinary people

    Officials should not forget the important role that ordinary citizens play in the critical hours after a disaster, authorities on disaster response told the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health, during a discussion of how that has changed since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

    5 minutes