Tufts University

Institute for Global Leadership

International Resilience Program

Recent News

Tufts Journal interview with Astier Almedom, by Taylor McNeil

Program News | Posted Feb 4, 2010

 Astier Almedom's thoughts on resilience in Haiti in the aftermath of the most devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010.

More Info: http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2010/02_1/features/02/

Congratulations to Jocelyn for a successful defense of her PhD thesis on March 11th.

IGL News | Posted Apr 7, 2009

Jocelyn Grupp Mueller, G09, successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in biology on March 11. Her advisor is Astier Almedom. She also presented a paper at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in mid-March. Her presentation was titled, “Including Local Voices in Global Discourse: Case Studies from Boumba, Niger.”

More Info: http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2009/04_1/people/notes/#Mueller

Resilience

IGL News | Posted Jul 1, 2008

International Resilience Workshop (Talloires 2007) Participants' photograph by Gabriella Goldstein

Astier Almedom, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health at The Fletcher School and Inaugural IGL Fellow. Astier is the recipient of the 2008 Graduate Student Council Award for "Outstanding Faculty Contribution to Graduate Studies".