Conference Faculty

Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH, FACEP

Co-director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Director, Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr. VanRooyen has worked extensively in disaster relief and humanitarian assistance in over thirty countries, including recent crises in Bosnia, Sudan, Rwanda, Somalia, Congo, Honduras, and Iraq. He has considerable experience teaching in the field of disaster and humanitarian assistance and is widely published on these issues.

His research interests focus on humanitarian practice and he is currently working with Physicians for Human Rights on the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Prior to joining the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Dr. VanRooyen was co-director of the Center for International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies at Johns Hopkins University, an associate professor and vice chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

He holds academic degrees from Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and the University of Illinois.