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Grand challenges in humanitarian aid

Fund and study these priorities for natural and social sciences to meet a gaping need, urge Abdallah S. Daar, Trillium Chang, Angela Salomon and Peter A. Singer.
  1. Abdallah S. Daar

    1. Abdallah S. Daar is professor of clinical public health, global health and surgery at the University of Toronto, Canada; chair of the International Scientific Advisory Board of Grand Challenges Canada; and a permanent fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa.

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  2. Trillium Chang

    1. Trillium Chang is a master’s student in public health at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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  3. Angela Salomon

    1. Angela Salomon is a master’s student in public health at the University of Toronto.

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  4. Peter A. Singer

    1. Peter A. Singer is chief executive of Grand Challenges Canada and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network, Canada

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A Rohingya refugee at the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh

A Rohingya refugee from Myanmar in a Bangladeshi camp in 2017. Credit: Adam Dean/The New York Times/Redux/eyevine

The gap between the magnitude of humanitarian need and the global capacity to respond is massive and growing. Here we describe an attempt to map ways in which that gap might be closed (see ‘Top 10 Humanitarian Grand Challenges’).

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Nature 559, 169-173 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05642-8

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