W. Courtland Robinson, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been involved in refugee research and policy analysis since 1979. The non-governmental organizations and academic institutions with whom Dr. Robinson has worked include the Indochina Refugee Action Center, Save the Children, World Education, the U.S. Committee for Refugees, the Asian Research Center for Migration, and Mercy Corps. He is the author of numerous studies on refugee issues, particularly in Asia. His book, Terms of Refuge: The Indochinese Exodus and the International Response (1998, Zed Books), was selected by the Humanitarian Times as one of the ten best books for 1999. His current research activities include famine and distress migration in North Korea, demographic assessment methods in complex emergencies, and development-induced displacement.

International Health, refugees, demography of forced migration, disasters, humanitarian emergencies

Paul A. and Esther C. Harper Award in Population and Family Health Sciences (2004)

MacArthur Foundation, Program on Peace and International Cooperation, Research and Writing Award (1992-1993)

Journal Articles

Rofi, A, S Doocy and C Robinson. 2006. Tsunami Displacement and Mortality in Indonesia, Aceh Province. Disasters (in press).

Robinson, C, MK Lee, and G Burnham. 2005. Scientific Priorities in North Korea. Science (307). January 14, 2005.

Robinson, C. 2004. The Indochinese Comprehensive Plan of Action: Sharing the Burden and Passing the Buck. Journal of Refugee Studies.

Robinson, C, MK Lee, K Hill, and G Burnham. 2001. Famine, Mortality, and Migration: A Study of North Korean Migrants in China. HE Reed and CB Keely, eds. Forced Migration and Mortality. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Robinson, C, MK Lee, K Hill, E Hsu, and G Burnham. 2001. Demographic Methods to Assess Food Insecurity: A North Korean Case Study. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 16(6).

Robinson, C. 2000. Famine in Slow Motion: A Case Study of Internal Displacement in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Refugee Survey Quarterly. 19(2).

Robinson, C. 2000. Refugee-Warriors at the Thai-Cambodian Border. Refugee Survey Quarterly 19(1).

Robinson, C, MK Lee, K Hill and G Burnham. 1999. Mortality in North Korean Migrant Households: A Retrospective Study. Lancet (354).

Robinson, C and B Frelick. 1990. Lives in the Balance: The Political and Humanitarian Impulses in US Refugee Policy. International Journal of Refugee Law (2).

Book Chapters

Robinson, C. 2006. Refugee Movements. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer, ed. Oxford, England: Blackwell.

Robinson, C. 2000. Flight from Indochina. In United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, The State of the World's Refugees 2000. New York: Oxford University Press.

Robinson, C. 1991. Laotian Refugees in Thailand: The Thai and US Response. In J Zasloff and L Unger, eds, Laos: Beyond the Revolution. London: MacMillan Press.

Books or Monographs

Robinson, C. 2004. Thailand: Background Paper on Human Rights, Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Writenet Report commissioned by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Protection Information Section.

Robinson, C. 2003. Risks and Rights: The Causes, Consequences and Challenges of Development-Induced Displacement. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement.

Robinson, C. 1998. Terms of Refuge: The Indochinese Exodus and the International Response. London and New York: Zed Books.