Lindsay Stark, Advisor / Photographer

An Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health and zooming across the globe for Columbia University…offered many wonderful photos from her vast and excellent Flickr Photo Collection, as well as much-needed confidence in HELO… Here's her Bio at Columbia...  

"Lindsay Stark, DrPH, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health in Columbia University's Program on Forced Migration and Health. She has over a decade of experience leading applied research on protection of women and children in humanitarian settings. Dr. Stark has led assessment and evaluation projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East...

"She has also helped pioneer the development of new methodologies such as the Neighborhood Method to assess incidence of human rights violations, and a Participatory Ranking Method that has been included in a recent World Health Organization assessment toolkit...

"She is the author of multiple publications on the rehabilitation and resiliency of former child soldiers and survivors of sexual violence. Dr. Stark also serves as the Director of Research and Curriculum at the newly founded Center on Child Protection, based at the University of Indonesia." Contact: LS2302@columbia.edu

SELECT PUBLICATIONS 

Stark, L. (2006). Cleansing the wounds of war: An examination of traditional healing, psychosocial health and reintegration in Sierra Leone. Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counseling in Areas of Armed Conflict, 4(3).

Stark, L., Ager, A., Wessells, M. & Boothby, N.  (2009). Developing culturally relevant indicators of reintegration for girls formerly associated  with armed groups in Sierra Leone using a participative ranking  methodology. Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counseling in Areas of Armed Conflict, 7(1).

Stark, L., Boothby, N., Ager, A. (2009). Children and fighting forces: Ten years on from Cape Town. Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies Policy and Management, 33(4): 522-547.

Stark, L. Roberts, L., Acham, A., Boothby, N., Ager, A. (2010). Measuring violence against women amidst war and displacement in northern Uganda. The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Ager, A., Stark, L., Akesson, B., Boothby, N. (2010) Defining best practice in care and protection of children in crisis-affected settings: A delphi study [of expert practitioners]. Child Development, 81(4). 

Ager, A., Stark, L., Olsen, J. and Boothby, N. (2010) The impact of programming supporting the reintegration of girls formerly abducted by armed groups in Sierra Leone. Girlhood Studies, 3(1).  

Murphy, M., Stark, L., Wessells, M., Boothby, N. Ager, A. (in press). Fortifying barriers: Sexual violence as an obstacle to girls’ school participation in northern Uganda. In Julia Paulson (Ed.), Conflict, education and peacebuilding: Oxford studies in comparative education. Oxfordshire: Symposium Books.

Stark, L. and Wessells, M. (in press) The fallacy of the ticking time bomb: Resilience of children associated with armed forces and groups. In Chandi Fernando and Michel Ferrari (Eds.). The handbook on promoting resilience in children. Springer.