New collaborative project to develop innovative solutions for humanitarian action: Building resilience in health infrastructure.

The research group Spatial Development and Urban Policy (SPUR) with its Humanitarian Planning Hub is part of a new collaborative research projects to develop innovative solutions for humanitarian action. The project led by Guillaume Habert from the Chair of Sustainable Construction, has been awarded with the Humanitarian Action Challenge grant, an initiative of the external page Engineering Humanitarian Action Partnership between ETH Zurich, EPFL and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The project aims to support the ICRC in creating a resilience strategy for health infrastructure in conflict-affected settings and to develop interventions to enhance health service outcomes in the short and long term. The project will use the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon as a case study. SPUR will contribute to the project by assessing the hospital’s resilience from the socio-spatial and institutional perspective, as well as analyzing its interdependencies with territorial and environmental systems.
Find more information on the project external page here.