Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies

Hannah Wild is a General Surgery Resident at the University of Washington focused on humanitarian response for civilian casualties in conflict settings. Her clinical interests are in trauma surgery and critical care. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine with a Scholarly Concentration in International Humanitarian Health. Prior to residency, she conducted extensive fieldwork with conflict-affected nomadic populations on the Ethiopia-South Sudan border developing novel geospatial methodology that was awarded a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Grant, as well as ethnographic work on regional drivers of conflict among pastoralist communities that has been cited by policymakers including the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan. Her current work focuses on improving humanitarian surgical care for civilian casualties in conflict settings, particularly for victims of explosive weapons. In collaboration with the United Nations Mine Action Service, International Blast Injury Research Network, and Pediatric Blast Injury Partnership, she leads the Mine Action Trauma Care Collaborative, an effort to strengthen coordination between the mine action sector and trauma care for victims of explosive violence.