ABOUT CREEW
The Center for Research and Education in the Ecology of War (CREEW) was established with the vision to strengthen humanitarian practice in conflict settings, through health-related research and capacity building.
VISION
CREEW is the center for humanitarian practice, health-related research and capacity building in the ecology of war.
MISSION
CREEW strengthens humanitarian practice in conflict settings through contextualized research and tailored capacity building of frontline health practitioners.
CREEW FELLOWSHIP
One of the core activities of CREEW is a mentored fellowship program, which aims to counteract the effects of research and data poverty prevalent in conflict-affected settings. The impetus of the establishment of the CREEW fellowship is to equip frontline health practitioners working in conflict settings with the necessary skills that would enable them to conduct research into the relationship between health and war. The research output will help in forming the practice of humanitarian work especially in conflict affected settings.
The fellowship program adopts a variety of learning modalities including online courses and face-to-face/online training. The fellowship has three components starting with the didactic phase followed by field-based mentored research phase and culminated by the research dissemination phase.
Each fellowship cycle, which spans 24 to 36 months, focuses on a context specific global health challenge.
Didactic Phase
Face to Face and/or online learning modalities
Field-based Mentored Research Phase
Research conducted at country of origin or practice
Research Dissemination Phase
Scholarly outputs (peer reviewed papers, conference abstracts)
CREEW FELLOW COMPETENCIES
- Identify the concepts for global health issues in war
- Define the basic principles and concepts in research design in the context of a conflict setting
- Understand the ethical and security implications when conducting research in conflict settings
- Understand the methodology of data collection within the constraints of a conflict setting and establish a system of data collection in a conflict setting
- Collect evidence-based data in conflict settings that is relevant, statistically accurate and of value to communities and policy makers
- Employ communication channels across multi-disciplinary teams when conducting research in conflict settings
- Employ basic analytical approaches to the collected data from conflict settings (Analysis and Synthesis)
- Produce an appropriate modality of knowledge production and communication
