Faculty
 Jennifer Leaning M.D., M.S.
Professor of International Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Jennifer Leaning directs the Program on Humanitarian Crises, based
at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. She is an assistant professor
of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in
the Emergency Department of Brigham and Women's Hospital. She teaches
disaster management, human rights, and response to humanitarian crises
and for ten years was editor-in-chief of Medicine and Global Survival,
an international quarterly that addresses issues of war, disaster, human
rights, and the environment from the perspective of medicine and public
health. She has field experience in problems of disaster response and
human rights (particularly in the Mideast, former USSR, Somalia, the
African Great Lakes area, Albania, and Kosovo) and has written widely
on these issues. She is lead editor of a book on humanitarian crises,
published by Harvard University Press in 1999.
She also has extensive experience in medical management, having held
leadership positions in the staff model division of Harvard Pilgrim
Health Care from 1984 to 1997 (now Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates),
most recently from 1992-97 as the group medical director, overseeing
program, policy, and budget for a pre-paid group practice with 300,000
members. She currently chairs the Harvard University Student Health
Coordinating Board.
A founding board member of Physicians for Human Rights, she continues
to serve as a member of its Board of Directors. A long-time board member
of Physicians for Social Responsibility, she is now a member of its
Board of Sponsors. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors
of the Humane Society of the United States and the American Red Cross,
Massachusetts Bay Chapter.
She received her A.B. degree from Radcliffe College, magna cum laude,
a Masters in demography from the Harvard School of Public Health, and
her MD with honors from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of
Medicine. She trained in internal medicine and emergency medicine at
Massachusetts General Hospital and is board certified in both specialties.
Her research and policy interests include problems of international
human rights and international humanitarian law, humanitarian crises,
and medical ethics in practical settings of disasters and emergencies.
Selected Publications
Leaning J, Leaf A. Public health aspects of nuclear war. Annual Review of Public
Health 1986;7:411-39.
Greiger HJ, Leaning J. Nuclear winter and the longer-term consequences
of nuclear war. Preventive Medicine 1987;16:308-18.
Leaning J. War and the environment: Human health consequences of environmental
damage of war. In Critical Condition: Human Health and the Environment.
Leaning J. Questions coming late in the day. Environmental Impact
Assessment Review. Special Issue: Human health and the environment.
1994;14:321-326.
Leaning J, Arie S. Human security: A framework for analysis in settings
of crisis and transition. Working
Paper Series 11/8, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge,
MA, 2001.
Leaning J. Human Rights and Conflict. Health and Human Rights 2003;
6(2): 151-160.
Leaning, J. Public Health, War and Terrorism. Harvard Health Policy
Review; Spring 2003; 4(1): 51-55.
Stabinski L, Pelley K, Jacob S, Long J, Leaning J. Reframing HIV and
AIDS. BMJ 2003; 327: 1101-1103.
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