Shannon Doocy

Shannon received her doctoral degree in International Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where her coursework and dissertation focused on humanitarian health.  She has over 15 years of experience conducting research and evaluation in humanitarian emergencies and post-emergency contexts.  Shannon’s work focuses on populations affected by natural disasters and conflict, including both refugees and internally displaced populations in camp and non-camp settings. Within the context of humanitarian emergencies, her areas of interest include health service access and delivery, nutrition and food security, livelihoods and cash interventions.

Her work is centered on the development of context-specific approaches for population-based surveys, needs assessments and the monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian assistance programs, that are rigorous yet feasible to implement given situational constraints of emergency settings. The focus is on implementation science, with the aim of informing ongoing humanitarian assistance and health programs and in the longer-term, providing an evidence base for emergency response programs and policies. Recent research and evaluation projects have been implemented in collaboration with NGOs, UN agencies, and other academic institutions in a variety of countries including Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo among others.