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Lindsay Stark

Associate Professor in the Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health

Lindsay Stark is Associate Professor in the Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She has more than a decade of experience leading applied research on protection of women and children in humanitarian settings. Dr. Stark's particular area of expertise is measuring sensitive and difficult-to-measure social phenomenon. She has led assessment and evaluation projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East and helped pioneer the development of new methodologies such as the Neighborhood Method to assess incidence of human rights violations. Dr. Stark is the author of multiple publications on the rehabilitation and resiliency of child soldiers and survivors of sexual violence. Dr. Stark currently serves as Principal Investigator and Executive Director of the Child Protection in Crisis (CPC) Learning Network, a consortium of institutions that work together on global learning associated with children in disaster and war settings.