The Data Science of Refugee Camp Management

Music City Center 

The confluence of climate crises and population growth indicate that the world will see more refugee camps in the future. We need to get smarter about how to manage such camps, and one component of camp management rests squarely on traditional official statistics. One needs to know the kinds of data that a census bureau collects, and the kinds of data that a public health service gathers. One needs to track education and camp security. And it is vital to improve the on-boarding and off-boarding processes in a refugee camp. This talk describes preliminary work in that direction.

census data

public health data

education