Courtland Robinson

Courtland Robinson was part of the research team for the project Migration and Health in China (2011-2012). Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response. He has been involved in research on migrant populations since 1979.

The non-governmental organizations and academic institutions with whom Robinson has worked include the Indochina Refugee Action Center, Save the Children, World Education, Mercy Corps, the U.S. Committee for Refugees, the Asian Research Center for Migration, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International Organization for Migration. He is the author of numerous studies on migration issues, particularly in Asia, including Terms of Refuge: The Indochinese Exodus and the International Response (1998, Zed Books). His current research and teaching activities include demographic assessment in natural and human-made disasters; migration and health and demographic surveys among hidden and hard-to-reach migrant populations.