Chris Houston

Chris is the CEO and Principal Consultant of Humanitarian Associates.

Chris has worked in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka; Lae and Tari, Papua New Guinea; the Somali Regional State, Ethiopia; Şanlıurfa and Suruç, Turkey; Sokoto, Nigeria; Dunche, Nepal; Djibouti; Quetta, Pakistan; and Sana’a, Yemen.

Chris was a Senior Consultant for Marsh Risk Consulting and has been employed by Doctors without Borders, the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, and Grand Challenges Canada. He is award-winning faculty at the University of Toronto’s Global Health Education Initiative.

Chris served on the boards of directors of Doctors Without Borders Canada, ALIMA Canada, and Humanitarian Partners International. He is the President and Executive Director of the Canadian Peace Museum and serves on the board of Proper Support Trust.

He is the co-author and editor of chapter 10 of the Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine, published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

Chris is a Fellow of the RSA, a Community Fellow at Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, and a Certified Fellow at the UK’s Institute of Risk Management.

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