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A Palestinian doctor examines a patient’s eyes at a medical center in a refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, on May 7, 2012. Ammar Awad/Reuters

Fox Fellow addresses chronic health needs of refugee population

Jude Alawa, a Fox Fellow at the University of Cambridge, recently coauthored an article in the Council on Foreign...

Expanding the Evidence Base for Policy and Interventions in Cox’s Bazar

On December 3rd,  2019 the International Growth Center (IGC), the ...

The finding that poverty, and not exposure to violence and trauma, worsened working memory, was somewhat unexpected, given the high levels of war exposure in Syrian refugees, but is consistent with recent studies of U.S. children living in adversity, the researchers explained.

Study: Poverty, not trauma, affects cognitive function in refugee youth

Poverty, not war-related trauma, drives cognitive deficits in young people displaced by conflict, according to a new Yale-led study of adolescents affected by the crisis...

Marcia C. Inhorn, CMES Chair and William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, addresses conference attendees.

(Un)Settling Middle Eastern Refugees Conference

From September 27-29 Marcia C. Inhorn, CMES Chair and William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, hosted the international conference-...

The first of a group of Rohingya refugees settled in Grand Rapids, Mich., in August. Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Trump Is Trying to Kill the Program That Saved My Life

The following opinion piece written by Marius Kothor,  a Ph.D. student in history and a graduate afilliate with the Council on African Studies, appeared in the October...

Refugee anniversary

On Sunday, at least 100,000 Rohingya refugees in camps in Bangladesh came together to mark what they called “...

The group of K-12 teachers that participated in the Summer Institute for Teachers.

Teachers explore “refugee” as defined by international law

The Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center welcomed participants to its three-day Summer Institute for Teachers (SIT), “Refugees in Recent History,” from...

Yale Refugee Health Program Provides Medical Home for Refugees

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) students and faculty play a key role ensuring the approximately 250 refugees who arrive annually to Greater New Haven receive high quality...

Danielle standing in front of Parliament before going to sit in on the Department of Home Affairs Portfolio Committee Elections and meeting.

Student Spotlight: Assisting refugees in South Africa

Danielle Harris is a junior in the undergraduate Human Rights Program and studies history and political...

A young woman provides a DNA sample via cheek swab. She was among a cohort of Syrian adolescents forcibly displaced by conflict to participate in a study on the effects of genetic and resilience on the mental health recovery. (Photo courtesy of the research team.)

Study examines effects of genes and resilience on Syrian refugee youth

A new study demonstrates the influence of genetic factors and resilience — the resources and capacities for overcoming adversity — on changes in levels of psychosocial...