Patrick Vinck

Patrick Vinck, PhD, is the co-Founder and co-Director of Data-Pop Alliance; he is the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s Director of Research, an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Lead Investigator at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His current research examines resilience, peacebuilding, and social cohesion in conflicts and disaster settings, as well as the ethics of data and technology in the field. He is the co-Founder and Director of KoBoToolbox a data collection service. Prior to joining HHI in 2011, he founded the program at the University of California Berkeley’s Human Rights Center.