Meet the Course Instructors
Stemming from Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, senior staff working in the humanitarian field, and the Naval War College, NNPHL has assembled a team of experts in the humanitarian sector, specializing in law, diplomacy, public policy, medicine, humanitarian action, and adaptive leadership. Click here to find out more about our team.

Vandana Sharma
HHI Fellow, Project Director, DEPP External Evaluation
Allyson Brown Kenney
Director, National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership, Concern Worldwide U.S.
A. K. M. Musha
Country Director, Concern Worldwide Bangladesh
Dr. Stephanie Kayden
Director of the Humanitarian Studies Initiative / Faculty Director, International Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Vincenzo Bolletino
Director of Resilient Communities Program / Research Associate, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Julia Brooks, MALD
Legal Research Associate, Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Dave Polatty
Associate Professor U.S. Naval War College Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Program
Dr. Gilbert Burnham
Professor of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health