Nathaniel Raymond

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Nathaniel A. Raymond (@nattyray11) is Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and a Lecturer in the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) at YSPH. He was formerly a Lecturer of Global Affairs at the Jackson School for Global Affairs from 2018 – 2022. His research interests focus on the health implications of forced displacement; methodologies for the assessment of large-scale disasters, including pandemics; and the human rights and human security implications of information communication technologies (ICTs) for vulnerable populations, particularly in the context of armed conflict.

Previously, he was the founding Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2012 – 2018. From 2010 to 2012, he was Director of Operations for the George Clooney-founded Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI, which utilized high resolution satellite imagery to detect and document attacks on civilians in Sudan and South Sudan. Raymond was Director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights from 2008 – 2010, leading investigations into the role of U.S. health professionals in the Bush Administration’s “enhanced” interrogation program.

Raymond served as a humanitarian aid worker with Oxfam America and was deployed to Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, and the U.S. Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Raymond has formally advised multiple U.N., governmental, and non-governmental agencies, including the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations in South Sudan, the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, Save the Children, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Association of South East Asian Nations, the US Naval War College’s Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response program, and others. His work has appeared in Nature, TheLancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of General Psychiatry, Disasters, and other peer-reviewed publications. He is also on LinkedIn.