Education
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
Overview
W. Courtland Robinson has worked in the field of refugee and migration programs and policy since 1979, both in the United States and internationally. He received his PhD in Demography from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2004 and is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Health, Health Systems Program with a joint appointment in the Department of Population Family and Reproductive Health, and is also core faculty with the Center for Humanitarian Health. His research interests have focused on populations in migration, whether displaced by conflict or natural disaster, or in the context of migrant labor and human trafficking. Since 2010, he has been involved in the estimation of prevalence of, and risk factors associated with, labor trafficking, forced labor and forced marriage in East and Southeast Asia. He also is involved with a variety of projects around the world, measuring demographic characteristics of populations affected by disaster, humanitarian emergency, and displacement.
Honors and Awards
AMTRA Award (Advising, Mentoring & Teaching Recognition) (2010)
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)